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		<outline text="&lt;rules&gt;">
			<outline created="Fri, 10 Feb 2012 19:26:27 GMT" pgfnum="12669" text="&lt;rule&gt;">
				<outline created="Sat, 04 Feb 2012 19:09:43 GMT" pgfnum="4926" text="&lt;expanded&gt;true&lt;/expanded&gt;"></outline>
				<outline created="Fri, 10 Feb 2012 19:26:30 GMT" pgfnum="12670" text="&lt;/rule&gt;"></outline>
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			<outline text="&lt;rule level=&quot;2&quot; to=&quot;2&quot;&gt;">
				<outline created="Sat, 04 Feb 2012 19:09:43 GMT" pgfnum="4926" text="&lt;font-weight&gt;bold&lt;/font-weight&gt;"></outline>
				<outline text="&lt;/rule&gt;"></outline>
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		<outline created="Tue, 01 Jan 2013 17:03:14 GMT" pgfnum="16557" text="2013">
			<outline text="May">
				<outline created="Tue, 21 May 2013 14:54:22 GMT" name="iconChooserDialog" pgfnum="24234" text="Icon Chooser Dialog" type="thread">
					<outline created="Tue, 21 May 2013 14:54:27 GMT" pgfnum="24235" text="Our users love icons. "></outline>
					<outline created="Tue, 21 May 2013 14:55:01 GMT" pgfnum="24236" text="I guess most users do, but people who write in outliners need a little more graphic relief because our work is totally text and structure. Adding a bit of graphics is like adding spice to a sauce. And they're fun!"></outline>
					<outline created="Tue, 21 May 2013 14:56:10 GMT" pgfnum="24237" text="We're lucky because &lt;a href=&quot;http://fortawesome.github.io/Font-Awesome/&quot;&gt;Font Awesome&lt;/a&gt; is such a great collection of icons. And it keeps getting better. If you're developing web apps, you're nuts if you aren't using Font Awesome. Seriously."></outline>
					<outline created="Tue, 21 May 2013 14:56:49 GMT" pgfnum="24238" text="Anyway, until &lt;a href=&quot;http://worknotes.smallpicture.com/may2013/fargo065&quot;&gt;Fargo 0.65&lt;/a&gt; it was a lot of work to add an icon to an outline. What changed is that we created an icon chooser dialog that makes it easy and fun. "></outline>
					<outline created="Tue, 21 May 2013 14:57:58 GMT" pgfnum="24239" text="If you're using &lt;a href=&quot;http://fargo.io/&quot;&gt;Fargo&lt;/a&gt;, you can try it out with the Icon Chooser command in the Outliner menu."></outline>
					<outline created="Tue, 21 May 2013 14:57:59 GMT" pgfnum="24240" text="If you're not using Fargo, here's a &lt;a href=&quot;http://smallpicture.com/demos/iconChooser.html&quot;&gt;little demo app&lt;/a&gt; you can try. It doesn't do much but allow you to browse the icons. When you click on one, an alert pops up saying which icon you chose. "></outline>
					<outline created="Tue, 21 May 2013 14:58:33 GMT" pgfnum="24241" text="If you're a programmer, the code is free to use under the GPL. That means any improvements you make must also be licensed under the GPL. And it would be nice if you said where you got it. :-)"></outline>
					<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/scripting/Icon-Chooser&quot;&gt;https://github.com/scripting/Icon-Chooser&lt;/a&gt;"></outline>
					<outline created="Tue, 21 May 2013 15:10:18 GMT" pgfnum="24245" text="Enjoy! "></outline>
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				<outline created="Tue, 21 May 2013 12:34:39 GMT" name="hackerNewsIsDepressing" pgfnum="24212" text="Hacker News is depressing" type="thread">
					<outline collapse="true" created="Tue, 21 May 2013 12:34:44 GMT" pgfnum="24213" text="&lt;img src=&quot;http://static.scripting.com/larryKing/images/2013/05/21/trashcan.gif&quot; width=&quot;125&quot; height=&quot;170&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; style=&quot;float: right; padding-left: 25px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-top: 10px; padding-right: 15px;&quot; alt=&quot;A picture named trashcan.gif&quot;&gt;Yesterday someone at &lt;a href=&quot;https://news.ycombinator.com/&quot;&gt;Hacker News&lt;/a&gt; thought to point to my &lt;a href=&quot;http://threads2.scripting.com/2013/may/myOneTalkWithMarissaMayer&quot;&gt;piece&lt;/a&gt; about Marissa Mayer. It was a story I wrote in about 15 minutes. The point was at the end of the piece. As a preamble, I told a couple of stories from my personal experience. I figured it would get a few comments, maybe a couple of thousand reads, and that would be that. But the torrent of abuse on Hacker News was something that I haven't seen in a long time."></outline>
					<outline created="Tue, 21 May 2013 13:02:12 GMT" pgfnum="24221" text="One of the main reasons it doesn't work is that people don't ask questions to clarify. They jump to conclusions, some of which are very wrong. For example, they assumed I was the only person who was concerned about the BlogThis! button. Not true. "></outline>
					<outline created="Tue, 21 May 2013 13:03:24 GMT" pgfnum="24222" text="They assumed that I was being &quot;egotistical&quot; for thinking that Google ever cared what I thought, and arrogant that I think they should care what I think now. It's a fact that at one point, early-on, Google did care. Their chief PR person was from Apple, &lt;a href=&quot;http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2063209/Marketing-Head-Cindy-McCaffrey-Leaving-Google&quot;&gt;Cindy McCaffrey&lt;/a&gt;, a class act in every way. She would routinely send emails to me and Doc Searls asking our opinions. Whether anyone else there cared, I don't know. But I was invited to a meeting with engineers to talk about blogging, RSS and XML-RPC at one point. I can't imagine why they would ask me to tell them what I think if they didn't care. I suppose it might have been a big conspiracy, like Mission Impossible. Hey I wouldn't put it past some of the trolls on Hacker News to argue that. :-)"></outline>
					<outline created="Tue, 21 May 2013 13:05:48 GMT" pgfnum="24223" text="On the other hand, I don't take it personally that Google doesn't care what I think these days, partially because I don't think they care what &lt;i&gt;anyone&lt;/i&gt; thinks. That's a long story all by itself. "></outline>
					<outline created="Tue, 21 May 2013 13:06:26 GMT" pgfnum="24224" text="Now, we could have had an interesting discussion on HN if people would have asked questions for clarification instead of just piling on the abuse based on their impressions. That's taking them at face-value, assuming they really want an informative discussion. Probably the trolls in the thread, and their upvoters, wanted nothing like that."></outline>
					<outline created="Tue, 21 May 2013 13:08:06 GMT" pgfnum="24225" text="There were some other ludicrous statements. Did any of them know that I started a new company in December, and we shipped our first &lt;a href=&quot;http://fargo.io/&quot;&gt;two&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://littleoutliner.com/&quot;&gt;products&lt;/a&gt; in March and April? They said I thought JavaScript was a bad language. How funny, because I'm writing almost all my code these days in JavaScript. They say I'm old and out of date. Funny. They're the ones who are out of date! :-)"></outline>
					<outline created="Tue, 21 May 2013 13:09:16 GMT" pgfnum="24226" text="And if you say someone's old as a way of hurting them, the joke will eventually come back to hurt you. As one of the characters of Citizen Kane, Bernstein, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0033467/quotes&quot;&gt;said&lt;/a&gt; so eloquently, old age is the one disease you don't look forward to being cured of. It comes to everyone. I was young once. Now I'm middle-aged. Truth. And the sun rises in the east and sets in the west. I don't see what it has to do with the point of my blog post. "></outline>
					<outline created="Tue, 21 May 2013 13:36:25 GMT" pgfnum="24227" text="Now I think there's a solution to letting the assholes control the conversation..."></outline>
					<outline created="Tue, 21 May 2013 12:36:21 GMT" pgfnum="24214" text="As discourse has moved to Twitter, its big contribution has been to push aside the abuse that's common with discussion boards and mail lists. A very simple feature in Twitter, the block command, enforces decorum, by empowering the listener to turn you off if they find you offensive. People learn that if they say abusive things, they don't have to listen. The only people I listen to on Twitter are those who can make a point without getting personal. I learn from disagreement, but I can't stand people who use their freedom to speak as a way of hurting others. "></outline>
					<outline created="Tue, 21 May 2013 12:46:17 GMT" pgfnum="24218" text="Then I wondered -- if it works so well for Twitter -- why can't sites block Hacker News if the abuse gets too heavy? After yesterday's experience I probably would do it. I like the flow they deliver, but I hate the abuse. "></outline>
					<outline created="Tue, 21 May 2013 12:38:25 GMT" pgfnum="24215" text="So I have a suggestion for Paul Graham, the guy who runs Hacker News. Give sites the option of blocking links from Hacker News. I honestly don't care what the HN trolls, and the people who upvote them, supposedly &quot;think&quot; about me. None of it is based on anything real. A lot of it is anonymous. Sometimes people create accounts just for the purpose of dropping a big smelly turd in the middle of a discussion. "></outline>
					<outline created="Tue, 21 May 2013 12:47:20 GMT" pgfnum="24219" text="Let's learn a trick from Twitter, and cut off the trolls at the source. "></outline>
					<outline created="Tue, 21 May 2013 12:59:02 GMT" pgfnum="24220" text="PS: I subscribe to the Hacker News feed, which does not include comments. It's very useful stuff. So the links themselves are good."></outline>
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				<outline created="Mon, 20 May 2013 16:16:09 GMT" name="iTriedGoogleGlass" pgfnum="24177" text="I tried Google Glass" type="thread">
					<outline created="Mon, 20 May 2013 16:16:19 GMT" pgfnum="24178" text="&lt;img src=&quot;http://static.scripting.com/larryKing/images/2013/05/20/glass.gif&quot; width=&quot;115&quot; height=&quot;199&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; style=&quot;float: right; padding-left: 25px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-top: 10px; padding-right: 15px;&quot; alt=&quot;A picture named glass.gif&quot;&gt;I went to dinner last night with the two Scobles, Robert and Patrick."></outline>
					<outline created="Mon, 20 May 2013 16:16:33 GMT" pgfnum="24179" text="Robert is famous for the picture of him wearing a Google Glass while in the shower. "></outline>
					<outline created="Mon, 20 May 2013 16:16:55 GMT" pgfnum="24180" text="Last night, he was wearing the glasses most of the dinner, but &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.flickr.com/photos/scriptingnews/8755166253/&quot;&gt;took them off&lt;/a&gt;. He said I should try them. I did."></outline>
					<outline created="Mon, 20 May 2013 16:17:23 GMT" pgfnum="24181" text="What you get is a sequence of cards, with recent tweets, emails, Google Now type stuff. You scroll through them by swiping on the stem of the glasses. It doesn't any time to get the hang of it."></outline>
					<outline created="Mon, 20 May 2013 16:18:05 GMT" pgfnum="24182" text="You can create tweets with voice. It happened so quickly I barely knew I had done it. I created a tweet on Scoble's account. It contained an expletive which they conveniently ***'ed out for me. "></outline>
					<outline created="Mon, 20 May 2013 16:18:49 GMT" pgfnum="24183" text="It was nice. However I don't feel any lust for having one of my own. I carry an Android phone and an iPad with me most places. The UI of Google Glass, while interesting, doesn't seem to be an improvement over the phone interface."></outline>
					<outline created="Mon, 20 May 2013 16:19:36 GMT" pgfnum="24184" text="But it's early days. Maybe someone will figure this out. The Apple II wasn't much use before &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VisiCalc&quot;&gt;Visicalc&lt;/a&gt;, for example. The Mac came with a couple of demo apps, but didn't blossom until there were 20 or 30 useful pieces of software for it (it needed more of an ecosystem than an individual killer app). "></outline>
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				<outline created="Mon, 20 May 2013 13:54:46 GMT" name="myOneTalkWithMarissaMayer" pgfnum="24145" text="My one talk with Marissa Mayer" type="thread">
					<outline created="Mon, 20 May 2013 13:54:53 GMT" pgfnum="24146" text="It was 2003. Google had just bought &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blogger_(service)&quot;&gt;Blogger&lt;/a&gt;. On the acquisition, they said they wouldn't do anything to tilt the table in favor of Blogger. There was &lt;a href=&quot;http://scripting.com/2003/06/28.html#When:11:55:25AM&quot;&gt;concern&lt;/a&gt; in the wider blogging community that Google might use its power in search to give people an incentive to use Blogger over other publishing platforms. They said this would never happen. "></outline>
					<outline collapse="true" created="Mon, 20 May 2013 13:55:59 GMT" pgfnum="24147" text="But a few weeks after the deal they broke the promise. They added a &lt;a href=&quot;http://support.google.com/blogger/bin/answer.py?hl=en&amp;answer=41469&quot;&gt;BlogThis!&lt;/a&gt; button to Google Toolbar. It only worked with Blogger. It would have been a simple matter to make it work with any blogging tool. But they didn't see why they should do that.">
						<outline created="Mon, 20 May 2013 14:04:31 GMT" pgfnum="24154" text="It would have been okay if Blogger was the default. But give the users a preference to set the address of our blogging platform. "></outline>
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					<outline created="Mon, 20 May 2013 13:56:52 GMT" pgfnum="24148" text="Back then Google cared a little about what I thought, so the result was a conference call between me and an exec at Google, Marissa Mayer. I was driving cross-country from California to Boston, so I stopped in Utah, in the parking lot of a 7-11 just east of Salt Lake City, and we had the call. "></outline>
					<outline created="Mon, 20 May 2013 13:57:55 GMT" pgfnum="24149" text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://fargo.io/&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://static.scripting.com/larryKing/images/2013/05/21/fargo.gif&quot; width=&quot;100&quot; height=&quot;110&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; style=&quot;float: right; padding-left: 25px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-top: 10px; padding-right: 15px;&quot; alt=&quot;A picture named fargo.gif&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;All I remember of it was there came a point in the conversation when Mayer had had enough. She just got up and left. I think the people remaining in the conference room were a little embarassed. Google didn't do anything to change the BlogThis! button."></outline>
					<outline created="Mon, 20 May 2013 13:58:32 GMT" pgfnum="24150" text="All this is to say that the promises execs make on acquisitions are meaningless. They own the thing, they will do what they want to with it. It doesn't matter how many nice sounds Mayer makes on the deal. At the core she cares not one bit what the users of Tumblr think. She's saying what she needs to say to make the deal happen. To avoid a PR crisis on Day One. To make the team at Tumblr feel like their work has value to the new owners. That somehow this acquisition isn't actually an acquisition."></outline>
					<outline created="Mon, 20 May 2013 13:59:52 GMT" pgfnum="24151" text="I have some intuition about this myself, because I sold a &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Living_Videotext&quot;&gt;company&lt;/a&gt;. We were bought because we had a presence in the Mac market, which was highly coveted at the time. I negotiated for myself a role as the &quot;Chief architect of Symantec's Mac strategy.&quot; A few weeks after the deal I made a presentation to the exec staff about what our Mac strategy would be. Only one person showed up, the president of the company, Gordon Eubanks. He watched a couple of slides and thanked me for the input. I asked What about my chief architect role? He told me that was something they told me to get me to do the deal. "></outline>
					<outline created="Mon, 20 May 2013 14:01:57 GMT" pgfnum="24152" text="He left the room. What was I going to do? What &lt;i&gt;could&lt;/i&gt; I do? Nothing, that's what. :-)"></outline>
					<outline created="Mon, 20 May 2013 14:02:20 GMT" pgfnum="24153" text="Moral of the story: When you sell your company, no matter what promises were made, you sold it. It's theirs now. They will do what they want to with it. Promises don't matter. "></outline>
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				<outline created="Sun, 19 May 2013 17:55:21 GMT" name="yahooBuyingTumblr" pgfnum="24103" text="Yahoo buying Tumblr" type="thread">
					<outline created="Sun, 19 May 2013 17:40:31 GMT" pgfnum="24104" text="It looks like Yahoo is buying Tumblr."></outline>
					<outline created="Sun, 19 May 2013 17:40:40 GMT" pgfnum="24105" text="&lt;img src=&quot;http://static.scripting.com/larryKing/images/2013/05/19/champagne.gif&quot; width=&quot;115&quot; height=&quot;235&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; style=&quot;float: right; padding-left: 25px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-top: 10px; padding-right: 15px;&quot; alt=&quot;A picture named champagne.gif&quot;&gt;I feel some sense of pride here because Tumblr is a descendent of products I made, Manila and Radio, that laid the groundwork for products like theirs. David Karp and Marco Arment will get rich (or richer) and that's cool because they're smart people who worked hard and made something real happened. I am in awe of systems that handle as much content as Tumblr. Their users should be in awe as well, imho."></outline>
					<outline created="Sun, 19 May 2013 17:41:32 GMT" pgfnum="24106" text="Yet we still don't have a whole system for product development in this industry."></outline>
					<outline created="Sun, 19 May 2013 17:41:47 GMT" pgfnum="24107" text="The rewards for digging the first holes that become the foundations for great systems like Tumblr and WordPress are minimal, if they exist at all. When you try to talk with investors about kicking back a bit of their proceeds in ventures that in addition providing good ROI, also create open formats and protocols that industries can be built on, you get blank stares. As if they don't understand. Of course they &lt;i&gt;do&lt;/i&gt; understand, it's just easier to pretend they don't."></outline>
					<outline created="Sun, 19 May 2013 17:45:20 GMT" pgfnum="24109" text="They profit from this work, but like the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ant_and_the_Grasshopper&quot;&gt;grasshopper&lt;/a&gt; in the famous fable, they aren't willing to participate in the investment that made the profit possible. Too bad, because if they did -- I think their companies would be stronger as a result. The better the foundation, the bigger the building you can make, and the more efficient it is to keep it running. Had we had a longer easier runway for Radio and Manila, Tumblr might have gone further on less investment. "></outline>
					<outline created="Sun, 19 May 2013 17:43:19 GMT" pgfnum="24108" text="Anyway, that's a small point right now. Get out the champagne and celebrate, because some of the good guys won. (Or at least appear to have, we'll find out for sure tomorrow.)"></outline>
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				<outline created="Sat, 18 May 2013 19:12:17 GMT" name="usersMailListForDropbox" pgfnum="24062" text="Users mail list for Dropbox" type="thread">
					<outline created="Sat, 18 May 2013 19:12:28 GMT" pgfnum="24063" text="&lt;img src=&quot;http://static.scripting.com/larryKing/images/2013/05/18/drum.gif&quot; width=&quot;135&quot; height=&quot;112&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; style=&quot;float: right; padding-left: 25px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-top: 10px; padding-right: 15px;&quot; alt=&quot;A picture named drum.gif&quot;&gt;I've been wondering lately why there has been so little useful stuff written about &lt;a href=&quot;http://fargo.io/&quot;&gt;Fargo&lt;/a&gt;. It's an interesting product from a lot of angles. "></outline>
					<outline created="Sat, 18 May 2013 19:21:46 GMT" pgfnum="24074" text="So I've been asking questions, and this is what I've figured out."></outline>
					<outline created="Sat, 18 May 2013 19:13:16 GMT" pgfnum="24064" text="1. There are great places to go for reviews of Mac products. "></outline>
					<outline created="Sat, 18 May 2013 19:13:43 GMT" pgfnum="24065" text="2. If you want to know about software that's sold on Amazon, you'll find lots of reviews from users. I understand that well because I depend on reviews for almost everything I buy on Amazon. "></outline>
					<outline created="Sat, 18 May 2013 19:14:26 GMT" pgfnum="24066" text="3. For IOS and Android apps there are the stores, which have reviews."></outline>
					<outline created="Sat, 18 May 2013 19:14:37 GMT" pgfnum="24067" text="But there is no place, that I know for Dropbox users to find out what the great apps are and what users are doing with them. "></outline>
					<outline created="Sat, 18 May 2013 19:15:11 GMT" pgfnum="24068" text="Probably because Dropbox as a platform is so new? "></outline>
					<outline created="Sat, 18 May 2013 19:15:23 GMT" pgfnum="24069" text="It's like a fog here, because we're all operating with so little information. "></outline>
					<outline created="Sat, 18 May 2013 19:15:38 GMT" pgfnum="24070" text="So let's solove the problem. I started a mail list today for users of Dropbox who want to be in the loop on all kinds of new products. Obviously it's a chicken and egg thing. If enough users show up, the developers will follow, and vice versa. "></outline>
					<outline created="Sat, 18 May 2013 19:16:21 GMT" pgfnum="24071" text="&lt;a href=&quot;https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!forum/dropbox-users&quot;&gt;https://groups.google.com/forum/dropbox-users&lt;/a&gt;"></outline>
					<outline created="Sat, 18 May 2013 19:16:21 GMT" pgfnum="24072" text="We'll probably need some rules of conduct at some point, or move to a blog or blogs, because mail lists always tend to flame out if there's no moderation, but for now, it's a good way for people to meet, if there's enough interest."></outline>
					<outline created="Sat, 18 May 2013 19:16:59 GMT" pgfnum="24073" text="As a vendor of a Dropbox-based product, I can tell you I am highly motivated to see this work. Most people who use Dropbox, some of whom would love a great outliner, don't know my product exists. I want desperately to fix that. :-)"></outline>
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				<outline created="Fri, 17 May 2013 15:32:44 GMT" name="googleIsTheNewMsm" pgfnum="24051" text="Google is the new MSM" type="thread">
					<outline created="Fri, 17 May 2013 15:32:50 GMT" pgfnum="24052" text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulworth&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://static.scripting.com/larryKing/images/2013/05/17/bulworth.gif&quot; width=&quot;115&quot; height=&quot;170&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; style=&quot;float: right; padding-left: 25px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-top: 10px; padding-right: 15px;&quot; alt=&quot;A picture named bulworth.gif&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Last night watching the NBA on TNT, new commercials for the YouTube comedy fest. The production was distinctly &lt;i&gt;not&lt;/i&gt; YouTube. It was professional in every way. Nothing amateur about it. Google is now &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mainstream_media&quot;&gt;MSM&lt;/a&gt;. All that talk about &lt;a href=&quot;http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57584689-93/googles-page-wants-a-tech-burning-man/&quot;&gt;Burning Man&lt;/a&gt; is sleight of hand. That guy has as much in common with you and me as Rupert Murdoch does. "></outline>
					<outline created="Fri, 17 May 2013 15:33:42 GMT" pgfnum="24054" text="It's not just Google, Twitter is also MSM. Facebook? Eh. Their presence on TV is mostly in URLs at the bottom of other peoples' ads. Their commercials are amateurish, awful imitations of other tech company commercials. Not to say they're the only ones with awful commercials, but theirs are awful in their amateurishness. "></outline>
					<outline created="Fri, 17 May 2013 15:35:01 GMT" pgfnum="24055" text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.forbes.com/sites/modeledbehavior/2013/05/17/google-reader-google-plus-and-the-future-of-social-networks/&quot;&gt;A blog post&lt;/a&gt; on Forbes suggests that Google is going to bring RSS back in a MSM-type way. You'll be able to follow Blogger blogs in Google Plus. Maybe they'll make a deal with Automattic and Tumblr to make it possible to follow their blogs too. Me and you? Well we can be followed, but only if we use one of the silos. We have to be locked in &lt;i&gt;someone's&lt;/i&gt; trunk to participate."></outline>
					<outline collapse="true" created="Fri, 17 May 2013 15:36:38 GMT" pgfnum="24057" text="The web is going to play the same role to all this crazy locked up stuff that it played to MSM in the 90s. We're going to be the oddballs. The ones with amateurish sites. We'll be the artisans, the local farmers of ideas. The ones that lack polish but speak from our experience. We'll do what &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulworth&quot;&gt;Bulworth&lt;/a&gt; so famously did. I don't have access, and I don't want it. I'd much prefer to hear from other people who don't have access and don't want it.">
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					<outline created="Fri, 17 May 2013 15:38:11 GMT" pgfnum="24058" text="The web keeps moving. If your attention has shifted and you can't see that, that's not the same thing as the web being lost. Maybe &lt;i&gt;you&lt;/i&gt; got lost? :-)"></outline>
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				<outline created="Thu, 16 May 2013 15:55:16 GMT" name="whyDaveWynnUsesFargo" pgfnum="23999" text="Why Dave Wynn uses Fargo" type="thread">
					<outline created="Thu, 16 May 2013 15:55:23 GMT" pgfnum="24000" text="Over on our Community Feed for Fargo users, a conversation started about how people are loving writing code with Fargo. This really surprised me, because we haven't done much to encourage this. There's a simple feature in the app that allows you to run a single-line of JavaScript code. This means you can call any routine that's in Fargo, or in Bootstrap, jQuery or in the core JavaScript libraries. "></outline>
					<outline created="Thu, 16 May 2013 16:21:42 GMT" pgfnum="24003" text="We have it in there because it's useful for one-liners, for debugging the app. It's not meant to make it a programming environment. But some people seem to love it. I wanted to know why, so I asked. And what came back from Dave Wynn, a user who I had not met until this exchange, was a simple and eloquent explanation of why Fargo is a great product (I happen to agree with him of course, but then it's partly my creation). Here's what he said, of course in an outline (Fargo is an outliner)."></outline>
					<outline created="Thu, 18 Apr 2013 18:03:45 GMT" pgfnum="1948" text="&lt;rules <rules><rule level="0" to="2"><list-space>10px;</list-space></rule><rule level="1" to="1"><font-weight>bold</font-weight><outline-space-before>10px;</outline-space-before></rule><rule level="2" to="2"><outline-indent>0</outline-indent></rule><rule level="3" to="infinity"><outline-indent>30px</outline-indent></rule></rules>&gt;"></outline>
					<outline text="It's as cross platform as it gets">
						<outline text="I use Windows at work and Linux at home, and making everything play nice (even with Dropbox) can be a &lt;b&gt;HUGE&lt;/b&gt; pain"></outline>
						<outline text="Linux also doesn't get a lot of love with regard to clean, user-focused apps"></outline>
						</outline>
					<outline text="It's file backed">
						<outline text="I couldn't get into Workflowy because I couldn't trust that they wouldn't just disappear one day, leaving all of my thoughts unavailable in the ether"></outline>
						<outline text="I got into org-mode precisely because of this, but it took a lot of tweaking in order to work, and even then still missed some basic things like spell-check (which needed a diferent engine for each platform... see above)"></outline>
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					<outline text="I can inspect it much more easily than other software">
						<outline text="Sure I know I can't see everything that's going on, but I can press the F12 key, and that makes little mods much more possible for a beginner like me"></outline>
						</outline>
					<outline text="Feedback is immediate">
						<outline text="CSS changes kick in right away, and there's no crazy compile step in order to get things right"></outline>
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				<outline created="Wed, 15 May 2013 15:14:23 GMT" name="workingWithoutServers" pgfnum="23932" text="Working without servers" type="thread">
					<outline created="Wed, 15 May 2013 14:26:33 GMT" pgfnum="23933" text="One of our fetishes at Small Picture is getting cool stuff working with no servers."></outline>
					<outline created="Wed, 15 May 2013 14:26:53 GMT" pgfnum="23934" text="You can get a lot done. For example -- &lt;a href=&quot;http://littleoutliner.com/&quot;&gt;Little Outliner&lt;/a&gt;. There's only one function it relies on a server for, the importing of OPML. And if you think about it, it's ridiculous that that function has to be done through a server. The code is running in a browser, which is perfectly suited to get a file over the Internet. "></outline>
					<outline created="Wed, 15 May 2013 14:28:01 GMT" pgfnum="23935" text="Many of the limits of the 2013 web are accidents of history. Someone at some time thought an operation was too powerful, that it could be abused, so they made it illegal. But they didn't close off the ability to call a server to do it for us, so we effectively can do anything we need to do. "></outline>
					<outline created="Wed, 15 May 2013 14:28:53 GMT" pgfnum="23936" text="A great example of that is the way Dropbox allows &lt;a href=&quot;http://fargo.io/&quot;&gt;Fargo&lt;/a&gt; to save to the local file system. "></outline>
					<outline created="Wed, 15 May 2013 14:29:10 GMT" pgfnum="23937" text="This is something we're not supposed to be able to do. But we're doing it anyway. And nothing is breaking as far as I can tell. We're inside a very simple easy to understand sandbox, a sub-folder of the Dropbox folder. "></outline>
					<outline created="Wed, 15 May 2013 14:29:50 GMT" pgfnum="23938" text="And in addition to being able to write to the local file system, we get cross-device synchronization for free. That's a great deal. (Understatement.)"></outline>
					<outline created="Wed, 15 May 2013 14:30:16 GMT" pgfnum="23939" text="All this means things are shifting pretty radically. Who is the operating system vendor if my files are equally accessible on Windows, Mac, Android, Linux, IOS, etc? Dropbox is, that's who. "></outline>
					<outline created="Wed, 15 May 2013 14:31:03 GMT" pgfnum="23940" text="A couple of years ago I asked the guys at &lt;a href=&quot;http://automattic.com/&quot;&gt;Automattic&lt;/a&gt; to add a feature to their API that would allow me to store a small XML file along with a blog post. Had they done this, and if we had followed where it would logically have led, today they would have the equivalent of Dropbox, along with content management. You'd be able to publish just by saving a file. "></outline>
					<outline created="Wed, 15 May 2013 14:32:08 GMT" pgfnum="23941" text="Today you have to figure Dropbox sees this opportunity. And that they will, eventually, navigate to roughly where WordPress is. "></outline>
					<outline created="Wed, 15 May 2013 14:40:43 GMT" pgfnum="23946" text="The server is moving. A fair amount of what used to be &quot;up there&quot; is now in JavaScript, in the browser. The network services are doing what only they can do, provide global access to published information. And unfortunately due to history, they are also acting as pointless proxies for things a browser app should be able to do for itself."></outline>
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				<outline created="Wed, 15 May 2013 13:26:34 GMT" name="whatsNewWithTheTwitterApi" pgfnum="23913" text="What's new (or broken) with the Twitter API?" type="thread">
					<outline created="Wed, 15 May 2013 13:26:57 GMT" pgfnum="23915" text="My linkblogging tool, &lt;a href=&quot;http://docs.reallysimple.org/&quot;&gt;Radio2&lt;/a&gt;, has a connection with Twitter. You can establish a link between your feed and Twitter so that every item in your feed is also posted to Twitter. "></outline>
					<outline created="Wed, 15 May 2013 13:30:42 GMT" pgfnum="23918" text="Here's a &lt;a href=&quot;http://static.scripting.com/larryKing/images/2013/05/15/blueBirdIcon.gif&quot;&gt;screen shot&lt;/a&gt;. To create the connection you click on the blue bird. That starts an OAuth conversation where the user gives Radio2 permission to post to his or her Twitter account."></outline>
					<outline created="Wed, 15 May 2013 13:27:44 GMT" pgfnum="23916" text="I've been hearing, peripherally, that some part of the old Twitter API is about to be turned off, or maybe has already been turned off. I can't pay full attention because it's a small feature, used by just a few people, and I have my attention elsewhere."></outline>
					<outline created="Wed, 15 May 2013 13:28:55 GMT" pgfnum="23917" text="Late last night I tried clicking on the blue bird, and sure enough there appears to be some breakage. Twitter &lt;a href=&quot;http://static.scripting.com/larryKing/images/2013/05/15/twitterError.gif&quot;&gt;complains&lt;/a&gt; that there is &quot;no request token for this page.&quot; Perhaps they changed something in their OAuth implementation?"></outline>
					<outline created="Wed, 15 May 2013 13:33:16 GMT" pgfnum="23919" text="I should investigate."></outline>
					<outline created="Wed, 15 May 2013 13:33:22 GMT" pgfnum="23920" text="If you have any clues, please post a comment."></outline>
					<outline created="Wed, 15 May 2013 13:33:31 GMT" pgfnum="23921" text="Thanks! :-)"></outline>
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				<outline created="Sat, 11 May 2013 23:16:00 GMT" name="needACuratorForTheAppleRiver" pgfnum="23789" text="We need a curator for the Apple river" type="thread">
					<outline created="Sat, 11 May 2013 22:55:16 GMT" pgfnum="23790" text="&lt;img src=&quot;http://static.scripting.com/larryKing/images/2013/05/11/bus.gif&quot; width=&quot;250&quot; height=&quot;176&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; style=&quot;float: right; padding-left: 25px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-top: 10px; padding-right: 15px;&quot; alt=&quot;A picture named bus.gif&quot;&gt;I did a house-cleaning on my river server on May 9. At that time some of the rivers stopped updating. Mostly the ones that no longer have tabs in the user interface because either I personally didn't have enough interest in the subject and not many other people were reading them. I didn't feel like paying for machine resources if only one or two people were reading the flow, or if there were only one or two new items a week. "></outline>
					<outline created="Sat, 11 May 2013 22:56:44 GMT" pgfnum="23791" text="One of the rivers that I turned off is the &lt;a href=&quot;http://tabs.mediahackers.org/?panel=apple&quot;&gt;Apple river&lt;/a&gt;. I use a Mac, several in fact. And I have an iPad and an iPod. I am a long-time Apple shareholder. I am an Apple user, but I am not a dedicated member of the Apple community like some people I respect are. For example, Brent Simmons, Marco Arment, John Gruber, Daniel Jalkut or Michael Gartenberg. I see a tremendous value in the river, if only someone rooted in the community would take an interest. It's also a potential money-maker, imho."></outline>
					<outline created="Sat, 11 May 2013 22:58:26 GMT" pgfnum="23792" text="It's really time for communities to spread out and become more inclusive. With a well-curated river, the Mac community can explore more niches, and grow in some interesting ways, perhaps."></outline>
					<outline created="Sat, 11 May 2013 22:59:01 GMT" pgfnum="23793" text="So I offer to keep running the river..."></outline>
					<outline created="Sat, 11 May 2013 22:59:07 GMT" pgfnum="23794" text="1. If someone with a site with serious flow offers to display the river on their site, linked to from their home page."></outline>
					<outline created="Sat, 11 May 2013 22:59:33 GMT" pgfnum="23795" text="2. It can be rendered in their template."></outline>
					<outline created="Sat, 11 May 2013 22:59:44 GMT" pgfnum="23796" text="3. I will provide support on the technical process for getting the river to display well in another site. It involves using jQuery, something I'm not an expert in. But I got it to work here, so I presume we can get it working anywhere. If we need help I know where to ask for it. ;-)"></outline>
					<outline created="Sat, 11 May 2013 23:00:23 GMT" pgfnum="23797" text="4. The curator has to have the ability to edit an OPML subscription list, and make it available at a public HTTP address. Fargo, my outliner, does this very nicely, in conjunction with Dropbox. But you can use any tool you like."></outline>
					<outline created="Sat, 11 May 2013 23:00:57 GMT" pgfnum="23798" text="5. The person doing the curating and the person doing the display can be different people, if you like."></outline>
					<outline created="Sat, 11 May 2013 23:09:33 GMT" pgfnum="23803" text="6. Curating here means choosing feeds, not stories. We're looking for good sources of Mac news and opinion. But it's up to those sources to decide what goes in the river. It's just an RSS aggregator on the back-end."></outline>
					<outline created="Sat, 11 May 2013 23:01:29 GMT" pgfnum="23799" text="7. All I want in return is a link from the page back to a page that shows people how to set up their own rivers, which I will write. It won't be hype-ish. I may ask for a little money for the software.  "></outline>
					<outline created="Sat, 11 May 2013 23:01:54 GMT" pgfnum="23800" text="I think the Apple river is a great place to start. Now I'm looking for one of the leaders in the Mac blogging world to step up and work with me on this. I may not be a Mac insider these days, but I go back to the beginning. I was onstage at the Mac rollout in 1984. I had an ad in the first issue of MacWorld. My product won the top Eddy in 1986. I used to go to WWDC back when it was in San Jose. I even &lt;i&gt;spoke&lt;/i&gt; at WWDC one year. Ask Guy Kawasaki. ;-)"></outline>
					<outline created="Sat, 11 May 2013 23:03:23 GMT" pgfnum="23801" text="Let's do this. I think it'll turn out to be an important step in the growth of the Mac blogosphere. "></outline>
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				<outline created="Sat, 11 May 2013 03:33:03 GMT" name="shouldTheCommunityFeedBeAnRssFeedInAdditionToBeingAnOpmlFeed" pgfnum="23768" text="Should the Community Feed be an RSS feed in addition to being an OPML feed?" type="thread">
					<outline created="Sat, 11 May 2013 03:33:27 GMT" pgfnum="23769" text="&lt;i&gt;This question came up in the Community Feed, which you can read in Fargo, by choosing the Community Feed command from the &lt;a href=&quot;http://static.scripting.com/larryKing/images/2013/05/10/docsmenu.gif&quot;&gt;Docs menu&lt;/a&gt;. Or you can read it in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://reader.smallpicture.com/?opmlurl=http://smallpicture.com/feed.opml&quot;&gt;Small Picture Reader&lt;/a&gt; if you don't use Fargo. I wrote my answer there, but thought it would be interesting to also post it here. No I didn't use the fancy &lt;a href=&quot;http://threads2.scripting.com/2013/may/aRenaissanceInBlogging&quot;&gt;Blogging 2.0&lt;/a&gt; protocol I described in an earlier post. Soooon!&lt;/i&gt;"></outline>
					<outline text="Well of course it would be nice to have everything, if there were no cost. "></outline>
					<outline text="It would take time to write the code and keep it running. It would be worth doing if there would be a lot of people using it. But right now the Community Feed a new feature. We're still at the point where we're introducing ourselves. If that's all it does it will have been worth it."></outline>
					<outline text="I'm an investor in software, and I have to make decisions as any investor would. I can't buy everything. And right now there are other projects that I think need more attention. "></outline>
					<outline text="Also, and this is a key point, this is not something you need Kyle or me to do. The &lt;a href=&quot;http://smallpicture.com/feed.opml&quot;&gt;OPML feed&lt;/a&gt; is public. If you want to write the code to convert it to an RSS feed, you can do it. ">
						<outline text="Read it once every ten minutes. Use the eTag feature of HTTP to conserve bandwidth. Generate RSS 2.0. How will you synthesize a title for each item? I don't know, that's a hard problem. RSS 2.0 doesn't require titles, but Google Reader did. That made generating RSS feeds a difficult process for data that doesn't inherently have titles. But Google Reader is going away, so we're free to do as we please, you say. Not so fast. The replacements are clones. I bet they're just as picky as GR was. At least until the dust settles, and that isn't going to happen this year even, probably. "></outline>
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					<outline text="But OPML feeds? Ahhh that's easy. Since I'm writing both ends I can make it work. And if I want to change things based on what I learn, I can do that too. That's why the early days on anything are important. And why you should go slowly enough so you can feed back what you learn into the protocol. "></outline>
					<outline text="Anyway you see these questions sound simple, but when you actually start writing the code, they can become complex. "></outline>
					<outline created="Sat, 11 May 2013 03:41:20 GMT" pgfnum="23770" text="Bottom-line: My bet is that no one would use an RSS feed of this content. That makes it a bad investment. I've been wrong before, btw."></outline>
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				<outline created="Fri, 10 May 2013 16:07:48 GMT" name="newsMovingToRivers" pgfnum="23698" pubDate="Fri, 10 May 2013 16:05:49 GMT" text="Standards for Rivers" type="thread">
					<outline text="&lt;rules&gt;">
						<outline text="&lt;rule level=&quot;2&quot; to=&quot;2&quot;&gt;">
							<outline created="Sat, 04 Feb 2012 19:09:43 GMT" pgfnum="4926" text="&lt;font-family&gt;Georgia&lt;/font-family&gt;"></outline>
							<outline text="&lt;/rule&gt;"></outline>
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						<outline text="&lt;/rules&gt;"></outline>
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					<outline created="Fri, 10 May 2013 15:39:45 GMT" pgfnum="23699" text="Jay Rosen wrote me last week to say that the River of News concept had reached a tipping point. That led me to &lt;a href=&quot;http://threads2.scripting.com/2013/may/whatIsARiverOfNews&quot;&gt;publish&lt;/a&gt; a brief email exchange with Brent Simmons about what a river is, from a design standpoint. But there's more to rivers than their form, there are a couple of other very important ways to look at them:">
						<outline created="Fri, 10 May 2013 15:40:52 GMT" pgfnum="23700" text="1. &lt;b&gt;Standardization&lt;/b&gt;.">
							<outline created="Fri, 10 May 2013 15:41:22 GMT" pgfnum="23703" text="The Mac beat the IBM PC because there were user interface standards. If I learned how to use a couple of apps, I was actually learning how to use all of them. If your river and my river work and act differently, we have no advantage, and people are going to stay with Twitter, because there, the UI for all rivers is the same. True, it's limited to 140 characters, but the advantages of standardization make Twitter easy and familiar."></outline>
							<outline created="Fri, 10 May 2013 15:43:42 GMT" pgfnum="23704" text="It should also be possible for users to combine rivers. I want Reuters and Wired rivers, for example, but I don't want to go to two places to view their news. Again with standards, we don't have to force readers to make a choice. This means growth for the alternate-Twitter, which is the potential of news moving to rivers. "></outline>
							<outline created="Fri, 10 May 2013 15:45:01 GMT" pgfnum="23705" text="Standardization is something the tech industry has a hard time with. But my experience with news and RSS is that it's not as much of a problem with publishing. Once we had the NYT on board, all the other pubs followed, compatibly, without the usual fighting that happens in tech.">
								<outline created="Fri, 10 May 2013 16:01:52 GMT" pgfnum="23714" text="However now that they have been hiring programmers, lots of them, they're becoming more like the tech industry, in not-positive ways."></outline>
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							<outline created="Fri, 10 May 2013 15:46:20 GMT" pgfnum="23706" text="I offer the &lt;a href=&quot;http://tabs.mediahackers.org/?panel=dave&quot;&gt;format&lt;/a&gt; we're using for rivers. It's a simple jQuery template, and an equally simple &lt;a href=&quot;http://riverjs.org/&quot;&gt;JSON format&lt;/a&gt;. The template was designed by an open &lt;a href=&quot;http://beautriver1.blorkmark.com/&quot;&gt;community&lt;/a&gt; in a Google Group a couple of years ago. I designed the JSON format to help define the problem for the group. It was a wonderfully successful open collaboration. I hope other people just use it as-is. "></outline>
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						<outline created="Fri, 10 May 2013 15:40:56 GMT" pgfnum="23701" text="2. &lt;b&gt;Open the doors&lt;/b&gt;.">
							<outline created="Fri, 10 May 2013 15:47:54 GMT" pgfnum="23707" text="This part, I believe, will be difficult for news organizations. But, if you want to compete with Twitter, you have to include bloggers in your stream. I don't mean reporters who call themselves bloggers, rather people who have expertise or experience that makes them the kind of people reporters like to quote. People whose ideas you think are dangerous. More of that. "></outline>
							<outline created="Fri, 10 May 2013 15:49:07 GMT" pgfnum="23708" text="News needs reforming, literally, it needs to be formed again around the new reality -- we all have printing presses. News will never reform itself until it feels the pressure from the sources, where it matters most, on the screens of their readers."></outline>
							<outline created="Fri, 10 May 2013 15:50:04 GMT" pgfnum="23709" text="We need to have one environment where professional reporters, sources and critics co-mingle their thoughts. We don't need a Public Editor as much as we need The Public. That's why Twitter has been so popular, but it's unfortunate that the news industry has been unwilling to meet them there. "></outline>
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				<outline created="Thu, 09 May 2013 18:10:12 GMT" name="aRenaissanceInBlogging" pgfnum="23678" text="Blogging 2.0" type="thread">
					<outline text="&lt;rules&gt;">
						<outline created="Fri, 10 Feb 2012 19:26:27 GMT" pgfnum="12669" text="&lt;rule&gt;">
							<outline created="Sat, 04 Feb 2012 19:09:43 GMT" pgfnum="4926" text="&lt;font-family&gt;Georgia&lt;/font-family&gt;"></outline>
							<outline created="Sat, 04 Feb 2012 19:09:43 GMT" pgfnum="4926" text="&lt;line-height&gt;160%&lt;/line-height&gt;"></outline>
							<outline created="Fri, 10 Feb 2012 19:26:30 GMT" pgfnum="12670" text="&lt;/rule&gt;"></outline>
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						<outline text="&lt;/rules&gt;"></outline>
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					<outline created="Thu, 09 May 2013 18:10:22 GMT" pgfnum="23679" text="I wrote a piece in August 2012 which I posted on Medium entitled &lt;a href=&quot;https://medium.com/i-m-h-o/349109119cee&quot;&gt;We Could Make History&lt;/a&gt;, in which I proposed that we get together and create a new API to connect authoring tools to publishing environments. "></outline>
					<outline created="Thu, 09 May 2013 18:22:22 GMT" pgfnum="23691" text="At the time I thought it was a long shot, but worth putting it out there in case anyone was listening at Medium, or elsewhere. That's why I made it openly. And why I put the post on Medium."></outline>
					<outline created="Thu, 09 May 2013 18:12:38 GMT" pgfnum="23681" text="Today I'm writing this post on my own blogging platform, which is more or less some scaffolding I put together to hook my outliner up to the web, so I could publish, before we had something real that others could use. "></outline>
					<outline created="Thu, 09 May 2013 18:13:16 GMT" pgfnum="23682" text="Now I can make a more concrete proposal because &lt;a href=&quot;http://fargo.io/&quot;&gt;Fargo&lt;/a&gt; is visible, people can better imagine what I'm talking about."></outline>
					<outline created="Thu, 09 May 2013 18:13:37 GMT" pgfnum="23683" text="1. I don't like the idea of writing something to have it visible in only one place."></outline>
					<outline created="Thu, 09 May 2013 18:13:54 GMT" pgfnum="23684" text="2. Sometimes I find that a comment I wrote in one place is really a blog post, but why should it stop being a comment?"></outline>
					<outline created="Thu, 09 May 2013 18:14:14 GMT" pgfnum="23685" text="3. Copy/paste is an awful synch protocol. It's 2013. We can do better! In fact we live in a time of great progress in sychronization, thanks to Dropbox. Publishing should make the leap into the future as well."></outline>
					<outline created="Thu, 09 May 2013 18:14:59 GMT" pgfnum="23686" text="4. Software now runs in the browser, written in JavaScript. It's indistinguishable from desktop software. So any protocol we come up with must work equally well with JS apps running in the browser."></outline>
					<outline created="Thu, 09 May 2013 18:15:35 GMT" pgfnum="23687" text="5. Meanwhile there are a number of projects underway to bring blogging up to date. But they're doing it without APIs and without feeds. Why? That's not really progress. "></outline>
					<outline created="Thu, 09 May 2013 18:16:38 GMT" pgfnum="23688" text="6. We were able to hook up &lt;a href=&quot;http://worknotes.smallpicture.com/may2013/fargo054&quot;&gt;Fargo to WordPress&lt;/a&gt;, largely to show what's possible. But we had to set up a proxy server so that our JS app running in the browser could call their server. This is a waste of resources and does not scale."></outline>
					<outline created="Thu, 09 May 2013 18:17:20 GMT" pgfnum="23689" text="7. We will have a for-real CMS running on a server. It will do things that are new, that none of the other publishing platforms do. But there will still be things they do that we don't. APIs are needed. But I'd prefer to work with others to come up with the API, rather than do both ends myself. If we do it that way we get there sooner, better."></outline>
					<outline created="Thu, 09 May 2013 18:18:36 GMT" pgfnum="23690" text="8. I'm pretty sure there will be APIs here. But I'd rather there just be one. We had that worked out pretty well in Blogging 1.0. But let's do it even better in 2.0."></outline>
					<outline created="Thu, 09 May 2013 18:12:04 GMT" pgfnum="23680" text="9. Who wants to go first? :-)"></outline>
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				<outline created="Wed, 08 May 2013 19:20:52 GMT" name="communityFeedInFargo059" pgfnum="23669" text="Community Feed in Fargo 0.59" type="thread">
					<outline created="Wed, 08 May 2013 19:21:13 GMT" pgfnum="23671" text="&lt;iframe width=&quot;640&quot; height=&quot;360&quot; src=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/embed/g85e5lB6pqw?feature=player_detailpage&quot; frameborder=&quot;0&quot; allowfullscreen&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;"></outline>
					<outline created="Wed, 08 May 2013 19:21:06 GMT" pgfnum="23670" text="More about &lt;a href=&quot;http://worknotes.smallpicture.com/may2013/fargo059CommunityFeed&quot;&gt;Fargo 0.59&lt;/a&gt;."></outline>
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				<outline created="Tue, 07 May 2013 21:54:04 GMT" name="levyOnBigcoInnovation" pgfnum="23618" text="Levy on BigCo innovation" type="thread">
					<outline created="Tue, 07 May 2013 21:56:10 GMT" pgfnum="23620" text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://qz.com/82090/big-companies-cant-accomodate-big-ideas/&quot;&gt;Levy&lt;/a&gt;: &quot;To really think big, you can't be at a big company.&quot;"></outline>
					<outline created="Tue, 07 May 2013 21:54:17 GMT" pgfnum="23619" text="I was amazed that these words came from Steven Levy, former Newsweek tech reporter, and late of Wired. He's spent a career supporting the myth not just that big ideas can come from big companies, but that they &lt;i&gt;only&lt;/i&gt; come from big companies. "></outline>
					<outline created="Tue, 07 May 2013 21:56:16 GMT" pgfnum="23621" text="He was paraphrasing Evan Williams, founder of Twitter and Blogger. But it's still an amazing transformation."></outline>
					<outline created="Tue, 07 May 2013 21:56:47 GMT" pgfnum="23622" text="Now, I don't expect the press to all of a sudden start reporting on where big ideas actually come from. But it's nice to be able to point to the truth, just once, from such a source. "></outline>
					<outline created="Tue, 07 May 2013 21:59:18 GMT" pgfnum="23624" text="BTW, we're thinking very big at Small Picture. :-)"></outline>
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				<outline created="Tue, 07 May 2013 16:49:25 GMT" name="whatIsARiverOfNews" pgfnum="23613" text="Q&amp;A w/Brent re River of News" type="thread">
					<outline text="&lt;rules&gt;">
						<outline created="Fri, 10 Feb 2012 19:26:27 GMT" pgfnum="12669" text="&lt;rule&gt;">
							<outline created="Sat, 04 Feb 2012 19:09:43 GMT" pgfnum="4926" text="&lt;font-family&gt;Palatino&lt;/font-family&gt;"></outline>
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					<outline created="Tue, 07 May 2013 16:01:55 GMT" pgfnum="23614" text="&lt;i&gt;On April 11, &lt;a href=&quot;http://inessential.com/&quot;&gt;Brent Simmons&lt;/a&gt; sent an email, included below. My words are indented beneath his in italic.&lt;/i&gt;"></outline>
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						<outline created="Fri, 10 Feb 2012 19:26:27 GMT" pgfnum="12669" text="&lt;rule&gt;">
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					<outline text="I like the river of news style of feed reading, despite having once written an &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NetNewsWire&quot;&gt;RSS reader&lt;/a&gt; that doesn't use that style."></outline>
					<outline text="But I'm not actually 100% sure what the technical definition is. I'm not trying to be obtuse about this -- I want to be sure I understand."></outline>
					<outline collapse="false" text="I think it's something like this, but I'm not sure which parts are optional, and I might be missing things."></outline>
					<outline collapse="false" text="1. It presents a list of articles from multiple feeds in a scrollable list.">
						<outline created="Tue, 07 May 2013 16:06:48 GMT" pgfnum="23615" text="Yes."></outline>
						</outline>
					<outline collapse="false" text="2. There might be multiple scrollable lists -- tabs of some kind.">
						<outline text="Not required, but you can do it that way (I have it with my &lt;a href=&quot;http://tabs.mediahackers.org/?panel=dave&quot;&gt;mediahackers&lt;/a&gt; site). But each one is a river, not the whole thing."></outline>
						</outline>
					<outline collapse="false" text="3. Items in the list are sorted in reverse-chronological order by arrival date (date the feed scanner saw the item) rather than by pubDate. (True?)">
						<outline text="True. By arrival date. pubDate is not important for ordering."></outline>
						</outline>
					<outline collapse="false" text="4. Items are presented with title, link, and an excerpt. The excerpt should be just long enough to be meaningful (around 280 characters).">
						<outline text="You could leave out the excerpt and it would still be a river. The important thing is that the excerpt be of determinate length, and short enough so you can see a lot of items on screen at the same time."></outline>
						</outline>
					<outline collapse="false" text="5. It handles edited items by ____? (I don't know. Does it show them again?)">
						<outline text="Does not show edited items again. "></outline>
						</outline>
					<outline collapse="false" text="6. There is no notion of read/unread whatsoever, and thus no unread counts.">
						<outline created="Tue, 07 May 2013 16:07:50 GMT" pgfnum="23616" text="Correct. No notion of read/unread. "></outline>
						</outline>
					<outline collapse="false" text="7. There is no notion of starred (or flagged, or saved) items whatsoever. (Users can blog, send to a read-it-later service, etc. as they normally would for any web page.)">
						<outline text="Not true -- you can do whatever you want there. I include a RT link on my items. Just as long as it's small and doesn't interfere with skimming."></outline>
						</outline>
					<outline collapse="false" text="8. A river of news feed scanner outputs &lt;a href=&quot;http://riverjs.org/&quot;&gt;river.js&lt;/a&gt; data. (Is this optional? Could it be RSS?)">
						<outline text="Not required. It would however be useful to have a standard here. I want to write all my displayers in JS running in the browser. "></outline>
						</outline>
					<outline collapse="false" text="9. Do river-of-news readers have to be web pages? Could an iOS or Mac app qualify, if it met all the criteria?">
						<outline text="Of course it could be an IOS app. "></outline>
						<outline text="The main idea aren't the details, but the way its used. I can scroll back to the point where I hit something I seen. Quickly. My memory is perfectly capable of telling me I've seen something before. You can rely on it, people can do this. "></outline>
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				<outline created="Mon, 06 May 2013 15:48:59 GMT" name="11thHourForNewsNets" pgfnum="23589" text="11th hour for news nets" type="thread">
					<outline created="Mon, 06 May 2013 15:49:13 GMT" pgfnum="23590" text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/may/06/twitter-hiring-head-of-news-journalism&quot;&gt;Michael Wolff comments&lt;/a&gt; on the job ad that Twitter is running, looking for a manager of news. "></outline>
					<outline created="Mon, 06 May 2013 15:49:31 GMT" pgfnum="23591" text="He suggests existing news execs, and that's probably the kind of person Twitter is looking for for this job."></outline>
					<outline created="Mon, 06 May 2013 15:49:53 GMT" pgfnum="23592" text="It's a head-fake. This guy is a figure-head. He or she will be working with media companies, speaking at conferences, talking about how Twitter is helping media companies succeed in the age of realtime Internet-delivered news. He or she is a feel-good ambassador to the news industry. A person handing out complementary samples of pasta and baked goods while the real action is elsewhere. "></outline>
					<outline created="Mon, 06 May 2013 15:51:12 GMT" pgfnum="23593" text="The job is a bedtime story. News will be as it always was, with familiar faces and jobs, just with a new delivery system."></outline>
					<outline created="Mon, 06 May 2013 15:51:50 GMT" pgfnum="23594" text="Meanwhile, the news system of the future is booting up all around Twitter, which is and always has been a &lt;a href=&quot;http://scripting.com/stories/2007/04/28/twitterAsCoralReef.html&quot;&gt;coral reef&lt;/a&gt;. They need a new shipwreck to build around, and this time the sunken ship is the remains of the news industry."></outline>
					<outline created="Mon, 06 May 2013 15:52:35 GMT" pgfnum="23595" text="Even at this late hour, I have a recommendation to any player in the news industry."></outline>
					<outline created="Mon, 06 May 2013 15:52:52 GMT" pgfnum="23596" text="1. Create a &lt;a href=&quot;http://tabs.mediahackers.org/?panel=dave&quot;&gt;river of news&lt;/a&gt; and put it on your home page."></outline>
					<outline created="Mon, 06 May 2013 15:53:00 GMT" pgfnum="23597" text="2. Include all the news from your own organization, but include news from bloggers in your community. "></outline>
					<outline created="Mon, 06 May 2013 15:53:31 GMT" pgfnum="23598" text="3. Include the feeds of your competitors. "></outline>
					<outline created="Mon, 06 May 2013 15:53:42 GMT" pgfnum="23599" text="4. Deliver the best news product you can with today's technology. You can link from the river to stuff behind your paywall, if you must, but the river itself must be freely accessible. Think of it as a river of ads for full-length stories. "></outline>
					<outline created="Mon, 06 May 2013 15:54:35 GMT" pgfnum="23600" text="5. No 140-char limit. Pick a higher number. There should still be a limit to the length of a synopsis. 500 characters is plenty. Most NYT synopses are &lt;a href=&quot;http://scripting.com/stories/2010/03/24/howBigIsANuggetofnews.html&quot;&gt;much shorter&lt;/a&gt; than that. "></outline>
					<outline created="Mon, 06 May 2013 15:55:15 GMT" pgfnum="23601" text="6. Make nice with Twitter. You can do a head-fake too. :-)"></outline>
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				<outline created="Sat, 04 May 2013 23:31:13 GMT" name="managingExpectations" pgfnum="23572" text="Managing expectations" type="thread">
					<outline created="Sat, 04 May 2013 23:31:25 GMT" pgfnum="23573" text="In software, mis-managed expectation can be as damning as it is in sports and politics."></outline>
					<outline created="Sat, 04 May 2013 23:31:40 GMT" pgfnum="23574" text="For example, coming into a political debate, each side tries to portray the other as vastly superior, in every way. If you can get the expectation low enough for your guy, he or she might &quot;win&quot; just by showing up. "></outline>
					<outline created="Sat, 04 May 2013 23:32:36 GMT" pgfnum="23575" text="In sport, where the outcome is measured more definitely, in points on a scoreboard, you manage expectation to play with the mind of your opponent. An over-confident adversary might relax, and create openings. The Knicks almost lost to the Celtics that way."></outline>
					<outline created="Sat, 04 May 2013 23:33:43 GMT" pgfnum="23576" text="In software, I've seen it happen over and over. I've never had to deal with too-high expectations, but my competitors have. The first time I encountered it, with competition from a much-bigger Lotus Development, I was scared. But when we survived the competition without a scratch, I learned that just because everyone thinks you're going to lose, don't necessarily make it so. "></outline>
					<outline created="Sat, 04 May 2013 23:35:07 GMT" pgfnum="23577" text="I wasn't happy to see the expectations so high for the vaporware product Diaspora. The kids behind it were too young and inexperienced to know how much work there is in creating a finished usable product. Academia, which generally doesn't have much respect for commercial development, doesn't help. The result was awful."></outline>
					<outline created="Sat, 04 May 2013 23:36:39 GMT" pgfnum="23578" text="Coach Bill Walsh of the 49ers had this down. Before a big game he'd always pump up the skill and courage of his opponent. Why not? Maybe they'll get over-confident. Either way, if he wins, he just vanquished a superior adversary. And if they lost, he gets to shrug it off with an I-told-you-so."></outline>
					<outline created="Sat, 04 May 2013 23:37:59 GMT" pgfnum="23579" text="In sport, politics or software, no one cares how great you think you are. What matters is what happens on the playing field. Did you win or lose? And did you do it with grace?"></outline>
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				<outline created="Sat, 04 May 2013 20:43:42 GMT" name="markdownAndOutliners" pgfnum="23557" text="RFC: Markdown and outliners" type="thread">
					<outline created="Sat, 04 May 2013 20:43:50 GMT" pgfnum="23558" text="&lt;img src=&quot;http://static.scripting.com/larryKing/images/2013/05/04/drummer.gif&quot; width=&quot;105&quot; height=&quot;192&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; style=&quot;float: right; padding-left: 25px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-top: 10px; padding-right: 15px;&quot; alt=&quot;A picture named drummer.gif&quot;&gt;I've had &lt;a href=&quot;http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/&quot;&gt;Markdown&lt;/a&gt; on my to-do list for a few months, and the other day, with a bit of blank space in my worklist, I decided to give it a shot. "></outline>
					<outline created="Sat, 04 May 2013 20:56:06 GMT" pgfnum="23571" text="It was amazingly easy to integrate into our JavaScript app. I just downloaded the source for &lt;a href=&quot;https://code.google.com/p/pagedown/&quot;&gt;Pagedown&lt;/a&gt;, the Markdown interpreter used by Stack Overflow. I put it into a file on our server, and included it in &lt;a href=&quot;http://fargo.io/&quot;&gt;Fargo&lt;/a&gt;. Added a command to the File menu, and came up with a &lt;a href=&quot;http://smallpicture.com/fargoDocs.html#markdown&quot;&gt;simple way&lt;/a&gt; to generate it for users. The whole thing was done in a couple of hours."></outline>
					<outline created="Sat, 04 May 2013 20:47:06 GMT" pgfnum="23562" text="Now we need people who know Markdown and outliners to take a look at this, try it out and relatively quickly, before there's an installed base to break, figure out if there's anything special we need to do, because this is an outliner and not a straight text editor."></outline>
					<outline created="Sat, 04 May 2013 20:47:57 GMT" pgfnum="23563" text="Here are a couple of considerations:"></outline>
					<outline created="Sat, 04 May 2013 20:48:02 GMT" pgfnum="23564" text="1. Should we generate one or two return chars at the end of every outline heading? At first we did one, then thought better and generated two, but now we're back at one. Pretty sure one is the right answer. We often think of a headline as a paragraph, but sometimes headlines are titles. Markdown views titles and paragraphs very differently."></outline>
					<outline created="Sat, 04 May 2013 20:51:26 GMT" pgfnum="23567" text="2. Indentation. I thought at first that we should generate a tab for every level, but backed out of that idea quickly because Markdown treats tabs as very special characters. Everything deeper than level 0 would be seen as preformatted code. Not the desired outcome."></outline>
					<outline created="Sat, 04 May 2013 20:52:50 GMT" pgfnum="23568" text="So I wonder if there have been any others who have integrated outlining and Markdown before? If so, what did they do here? "></outline>
					<outline created="Sat, 04 May 2013 20:54:25 GMT" pgfnum="23570" text="See the &lt;a href=&quot;http://smallpicture.com/fargoDocs.html#markdown&quot;&gt;Fargo docs&lt;/a&gt; for an idea how it works from a user's standpoint. "></outline>
					<outline created="Sat, 04 May 2013 20:53:37 GMT" pgfnum="23569" text="I welcome any comments from Markdown experts (I am anything but that)."></outline>
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				<outline created="Fri, 03 May 2013 20:40:18 GMT" name="fargoAndMarkdown" pgfnum="23515" text="Fargo and Markdown" type="thread">
					<outline created="Fri, 03 May 2013 20:26:00 GMT" pgfnum="23516" text="&lt;img src=&quot;http://static.scripting.com/larryKing/images/2013/05/03/drummer.gif&quot; width=&quot;105&quot; height=&quot;192&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; style=&quot;float: right; padding-left: 25px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-top: 10px; padding-right: 15px;&quot; alt=&quot;A picture named drummer.gif&quot;&gt;A quick note about a new development with our Fargo outliner. "></outline>
					<outline collapse="true" created="Fri, 03 May 2013 20:35:55 GMT" pgfnum="23521" text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://fargo.io/&quot;&gt;Fargo&lt;/a&gt; now has a &lt;a href=&quot;http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/&quot;&gt;Markdown&lt;/a&gt; processor baked-in. This means that a user can write a Markdown-formatted outline, and generate HTML from it, with a single command in the File menu.">
						<outline created="Fri, 03 May 2013 20:06:04 GMT" pgfnum="23514" text="We're using the open source &lt;a href=&quot;https://code.google.com/p/pagedown/&quot;&gt;Pagedown&lt;/a&gt; library. "></outline>
						</outline>
					<outline created="Fri, 03 May 2013 20:29:31 GMT" pgfnum="23517" text="Markdown and text go together, by design. Outliners are text editors, a special kind that understand structure. There is a structure to Markdown, as there is structure to HTML, but so far as we know, none of the Markdown editors have been outliners. "></outline>
					<outline created="Fri, 03 May 2013 20:30:34 GMT" pgfnum="23518" text="How the connection with outlines and Markdown will proceed is an unknown. By baking in Markdown we're asking a simple question. &lt;i&gt;How does this work?&lt;/i&gt; We hope to hear from users and other smart people who have ideas. "></outline>
					<outline created="Fri, 03 May 2013 20:31:19 GMT" pgfnum="23519" text="This feature is available in &lt;a href=&quot;http://worknotes.smallpicture.com/may2013/fargo055&quot;&gt;Fargo 0.55&lt;/a&gt;, which is now released on the site. "></outline>
					<outline created="Fri, 03 May 2013 20:31:31 GMT" pgfnum="23520" text="&lt;i&gt;Let's have fun!&lt;/i&gt; :-)"></outline>
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				<outline created="Thu, 02 May 2013 15:43:06 GMT" name="swattingAwayFlies" pgfnum="23466" text="The Knicks as a metaphor" type="thread">
					<outline collapse="true" created="Thu, 02 May 2013 16:27:56 GMT" pgfnum="23472" text="&lt;img src=&quot;http://static.scripting.com/larryKing/images/2013/05/02/knicks.gif&quot; width=&quot;145&quot; height=&quot;145&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; style=&quot;float: right; padding-left: 25px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-top: 10px; padding-right: 15px;&quot; alt=&quot;A picture named knicks.gif&quot;&gt;A number of Knicks players did something extremely stupid when they dressed in black for last night's game, saying they were dressing for the Celtics' funeral. These guys may be talented athletes, but they don't understand sports. Amazingly. How could they get that far in the NBA without understanding that you don't celebrate until you win. I know they're young. I wonder if they've ever heard about &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPKPgnIOKJA&quot;&gt;Game 6&lt;/a&gt; of the 1986 World Series. ">
						<outline text="&lt;iframe width=&quot;420&quot; height=&quot;315&quot; src=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/embed/XPKPgnIOKJA&quot; frameborder=&quot;0&quot; allowfullscreen&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;"></outline>
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					<outline created="Thu, 02 May 2013 16:29:42 GMT" pgfnum="23473" text="Sports, if it teaches us anything, it's how to struggle against our folly. How not to tempt fate. How to manage our own presence."></outline>
					<outline created="Thu, 02 May 2013 16:30:09 GMT" pgfnum="23474" text="Look at the incredible baskets these guys make. But they only make them when they're grounded, in the moment, feeling the energy, whatever it is. So JR Smith started celebrating after they had a solid lead in Game 3. He got ejected, and suspended, and not only wasn't there to help in Game 4, he broke the bubble around the Knicks, that had been around the team since they emerged from an awful funk in February. Now we have to wonder if they can get it back. "></outline>
					<outline created="Thu, 02 May 2013 16:31:32 GMT" pgfnum="23475" text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44knT22P1aw&amp;feature=player_embedded&quot;&gt;The Celtics&lt;/a&gt;, last night, walking off the court, may have helped the Knicks get back in the groove, repeating trash talk about Carmelo's wife. I'm just theorizing, lip-reading. But maybe he'll get angry and really &lt;i&gt;want&lt;/i&gt; to win. That's probably all it takes."></outline>
					<outline created="Thu, 02 May 2013 16:32:24 GMT" pgfnum="23476" text="Meanwhile in Oklahoma City, the Thunder coach thought he could sneak by the Rockets with a &lt;a href=&quot;http://probasketballtalk.nbcsports.com/2013/05/02/scott-brooks-lets-omer-asik-steal-the-show-from-kevin-durant-and-james-harden-in-thunders-game-5-loss-to-rockets/&quot;&gt;trick&lt;/a&gt;. Oh how sad. Kevin Durant who I thought was a true fighter, is instead mired in self-pity. And the Rockets, a young, smart, admirable -- wonderful group of young men -- are pushing every one of their buttons, artfully. They might pull out the upset. Amazing parallels between the Celtics and the Rockets. One team old, one young. Both not going out peacefully. "></outline>
					<outline created="Thu, 02 May 2013 16:33:37 GMT" pgfnum="23477" text="All this is a metaphor for my former friend Mike Arrington, who may be the JR Smith of tech. He was celebrating the demise of RSS while the body was still breathing. He had no clue that he had won, or that anyone was keeping score. "></outline>
					<outline created="Thu, 02 May 2013 16:34:21 GMT" pgfnum="23478" text="Technology isn't all that different from basketball. There's teamwork, and bubbles of energy, and franchises. RSS is not something that dies, any more than the NBA dies. Players come and go, there are generations -- the Patrick Ewing Knicks and the Bernard King Knicks. Now we have the Carmelo Anthony Knicks. But RSS, like the NBA is bigger than me or Mike. He doesn't get to say it's dead. RSS just laughs, shrugs it off and keeps on going."></outline>
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				<outline created="Thu, 02 May 2013 14:59:09 GMT" name="theFargowordpressConnection" pgfnum="23454" text="The Fargo-WordPress connection" type="thread">
					<outline created="Thu, 02 May 2013 14:59:22 GMT" pgfnum="23455" text="&lt;img src=&quot;http://static.scripting.com/larryKing/images/2013/05/02/wheel.gif&quot; width=&quot;115&quot; height=&quot;115&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; style=&quot;float: right; padding-left: 25px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-top: 10px; padding-right: 15px;&quot; alt=&quot;A picture named wheel.gif&quot;&gt;My &lt;a href=&quot;http://fargo.io/&quot;&gt;outliner&lt;/a&gt; is an authoring tool. I think of it as the hub of a wheel with lots of spokes. At the end of each spoke is a way to communicate. "></outline>
					<outline created="Thu, 02 May 2013 15:16:48 GMT" pgfnum="23464" text="Some of the spokes lead to private places, for example, the worknotes I share with my programming partner. No one else sees those. But then there are blog posts, like the one you're reading now. At the end of this spoke is software I wrote that renders an outline in this form. I'm one of a small number of people, today, using that method of rendering. "></outline>
					<outline created="Thu, 02 May 2013 15:01:29 GMT" pgfnum="23456" text="Yesterday we &lt;a href=&quot;http://worknotes.smallpicture.com/may2013/fargo054&quot;&gt;released&lt;/a&gt; a spoke that leads to WordPress, the popular open source blogging environment. You can now use &lt;a href=&quot;http://fargo.io/&quot;&gt;Fargo&lt;/a&gt; to create and edit posts in WordPress. This works in two ways:">
						<outline created="Thu, 02 May 2013 15:02:19 GMT" pgfnum="23457" text="1. You can use the outliner to organize a library of posts you want to be able to access quickly."></outline>
						<outline collapse="true" created="Thu, 02 May 2013 15:02:42 GMT" pgfnum="23458" text="2. You can use the outliner to structure each blog post. ">
							<outline created="Thu, 02 May 2013 15:07:54 GMT" pgfnum="23463" text="By default each level is represented in the blog post by indentation. But we also add CSS styles to each paragraph that indicate what level they are at. So a skilled CSS designer can set it up so that level indentation does much more to control the appearance of the text. I expect lots of interesting stuff to develop here."></outline>
							</outline>
						</outline>
					<outline created="Thu, 02 May 2013 15:04:25 GMT" pgfnum="23460" text="Here are the &lt;a href=&quot;http://smallpicture.com/fargoDocs.html#wordpress&quot;&gt;docs&lt;/a&gt; for the feature, and a &lt;a href=&quot;http://recentposts.smallpicture.com/&quot;&gt;list&lt;/a&gt; of recent new posts written in Fargo."></outline>
					<outline collapse="true" created="Thu, 02 May 2013 15:04:02 GMT" pgfnum="23459" text="Here's a homemade &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCV9HJpeWWs&amp;feature=youtu.be&quot;&gt;video demo&lt;/a&gt; of the new Fargo-WordPress connection.">
						<outline text="&lt;iframe width=&quot;420&quot; height=&quot;315&quot; src=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/embed/zCV9HJpeWWs&quot; frameborder=&quot;0&quot; allowfullscreen&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;"></outline>
						</outline>
					<outline created="Thu, 02 May 2013 15:04:59 GMT" pgfnum="23461" text="Over time you'll see us add more connection, and of course offer a general way for anyone to add new spokes to the wheel. And because we're using an open format, it'll even be possible to hook other outliners up to the same connections. "></outline>
					<outline created="Thu, 02 May 2013 15:06:00 GMT" pgfnum="23462" text="For anyone who cares, this is how you bootstrap a new standard, a &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.google.com/search?q=coral+reef&quot;&gt;coral reef&lt;/a&gt; for authoring and rendering. "></outline>
					<outline created="Thu, 02 May 2013 15:25:39 GMT" pgfnum="23465" text="PS: &lt;a href=&quot;http://concordtest.wordpress.com/2013/05/02/the-fargo-wordpress-connection/&quot;&gt;This is what&lt;/a&gt; the post looks like in WordPress. :-)"></outline>
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			<outline text="December" type="include" url="http://static.scripting.com/denver/wo/dave/2013/01/01/archive026.opml"></outline>
			<outline text="November" type="include" url="http://static.scripting.com/denver/wo/dave/2012/12/01/archive022.opml"></outline>
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				<outline created="Sat, 29 Sep 2012 22:01:32 GMT" name="ronPaulWouldProbablyLikeThis" pgfnum="13422" text="Ron Paul would probably like this" type="thread">
					<outline created="Sat, 29 Sep 2012 22:01:43 GMT" pgfnum="13423" text="I'm still on the mail list from the Berkeley neighborhood I used to live in. Today I got an email about a fire on the block. Here's the email, with the names and addresses changed.">
						<outline text="Hi,"></outline>
						<outline text="Last night a bit before 3AM,  Shirley Hellman looked out her window saw flames shooting up from the vegetation in front of George and Helen's home @ 202 Filbert. She called 911 while Barney went across the street and put out the fire using George and Helen's garden hose. He prevented what could have been a devastating fire by his quick, intelligent and brave actions."></outline>
						<outline text="By the time the fire department arrived with three vehicles plus a police car, the fire was no longer a danger. They completed extinguishing the fire and were gone by 3:20AM."></outline>
						<outline text="My thanks again to Shirley and Barney for saving our block from disaster."></outline>
						<outline text="Frank"></outline>
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				<outline created="Sat, 29 Sep 2012 11:28:49 GMT" name="twittersEpitaph" pgfnum="13420" text="Twitter is a tragic tale" type="thread">
					<outline created="Sat, 29 Sep 2012 11:29:01 GMT" pgfnum="13421" text="I've known Chuck Shotton since 1995, early days of the Mac web community. I was doing Frontier, an editing and database environment that turned out to be an almost perfect match for web design and programming. Chuck was doing WebStar, the leading HTTP server for the Mac. Our products complemented each other well, and we've been friends ever since. "></outline>
					<outline created="Sat, 29 Sep 2012 11:30:12 GMT" pgfnum="13423" text="I wrote a &lt;a href=&quot;http://threads2.scripting.com/2012/september/twitterMayNeedAPlanB&quot;&gt;piece&lt;/a&gt; yesterday about Twitter needing a plan B for developers, and Chuck left a comment which I think is worth quoting in full:">
						<outline created="Sat, 29 Sep 2012 11:30:44 GMT" pgfnum="13424" text="&lt;i&gt;Since day 1, I have been unimpressed with Twitter's management team and their ability to grasp the potential of their own platform and capitalize on all the huge opportunities that could come from it. This is just more of the same from them. &quot;Let's take what could be the single biggest transformational change in peer messaging on the Internet and dismantle its value, bit by bit, over the next 5 years and see if anyone notices before we're dead.&quot;&lt;/i&gt;"></outline>
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					<outline created="Sat, 29 Sep 2012 11:38:22 GMT" pgfnum="13428" text="What Chuck says is true."></outline>
					<outline created="Sat, 29 Sep 2012 11:32:45 GMT" pgfnum="13426" text="And we still need to create the layer that Twitter could have created. "></outline>
					<outline created="Sat, 29 Sep 2012 12:11:03 GMT" pgfnum="13429" text="This has always been the disagreement between financial types and tech types. We want to make progress, that's why we got into this field in the first place. I want to be part of creating new layers of technology. So we can be ever more powerful. I like making money, and have made some -- but for me it's just one priority. And once I had enough money to own my own time, it dropped a lot as a priority. I love what I do, but the financial guys mock my love. I've seen them do it over and over, for decades. Jim Manzi, who was then CEO of a big software company, accused me of being Mother Teresa. He wasn't trying to be funny (or if he was, it didn't work)."></outline>
					<outline created="Sat, 29 Sep 2012 12:12:36 GMT" pgfnum="13430" text="They think that the only reason to create something is to make money. The more money the better. They're not wrong. When I buy stock in a company, I want them to feel the same way. I say this to counter their belief that I'm stupid or naive. I understand why the VCs want to maximize profits. But I don't think they're doing that. Because they've made a trade-off. By reducing Twitter to sell it as an advertising channel, they are cutting off possibilities that might make money from a wide-open market. And some might make a lot more money than the platform. I don't doubt that will eventually be the lesson of Twitter."></outline>
					<outline created="Sat, 29 Sep 2012 12:14:34 GMT" pgfnum="13431" text="As an example, who made more money off the PC -- IBM or Microsoft? "></outline>
					<outline created="Sat, 29 Sep 2012 12:15:02 GMT" pgfnum="13432" text="Would IBM be better off if they had been able to foreclose on the openness of the PC platform (they tried and failed), or if they had invested in Microsoft? "></outline>
					<outline created="Sat, 29 Sep 2012 12:15:35 GMT" pgfnum="13433" text="There comes a time when a platform has a choice whether the innovation should take place inside their own walls or to let chaos reign in the open market. Having been around this loop a few times, I think the optimal approach is for, after getting to a certain point, the platform vendor to transition from being a programming shop to being a distributor and financier. The choice is between investing in employees or entrepreneurs. The latter is a better choice, always. You just have to look at the history of tech companies to see that. "></outline>
					<outline created="Sat, 29 Sep 2012 12:21:10 GMT" pgfnum="13434" text="Instead, Twitter is going to invest in employees. They won't be able to find enough. There will be disappointment. And there will be competitors. And in a while there will be another shiny new thing. With any luck one of them will be open and the platform will take a back seat to the innovation. And then Twitter will look like a very small place. "></outline>
					<outline created="Sat, 29 Sep 2012 21:39:23 GMT" pgfnum="13421" text="Update: There's a Hacker News &lt;a href=&quot;http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4589660&quot;&gt;thread&lt;/a&gt; for this piece."></outline>
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				<outline created="Fri, 28 Sep 2012 15:18:55 GMT" name="developingIn2012" pgfnum="13334" text="How Dave Develops" type="thread">
					<outline created="Fri, 28 Sep 2012 16:38:09 GMT" pgfnum="13388" text="&quot;Don't Be Evil&quot;">
						<outline created="Fri, 28 Sep 2012 16:38:18 GMT" pgfnum="13389" text="Is Google's commandment."></outline>
						<outline created="Fri, 28 Sep 2012 16:38:24 GMT" pgfnum="13390" text="Mine isn't yet as concise."></outline>
						<outline created="Fri, 28 Sep 2012 16:38:50 GMT" pgfnum="13391" text="But here it is..."></outline>
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					<outline created="Fri, 28 Sep 2012 15:19:01 GMT" pgfnum="13335" text="Apps must...">
						<outline collapse="true" created="Fri, 28 Sep 2012 15:20:06 GMT" pgfnum="13337" text="Give instant gratification and "></outline>
						<outline collapse="true" created="Fri, 28 Sep 2012 15:20:16 GMT" pgfnum="13338" text="Convey a sense of purpose, yet "></outline>
						<outline collapse="true" created="Fri, 28 Sep 2012 15:20:26 GMT" pgfnum="13339" text="Be deep."></outline>
						</outline>
					<outline created="Fri, 28 Sep 2012 15:36:18 GMT" pgfnum="13352" text="We serve">
						<outline created="Fri, 28 Sep 2012 15:21:56 GMT" pgfnum="13341" text="Designers"></outline>
						<outline created="Fri, 28 Sep 2012 15:22:01 GMT" pgfnum="13342" text="Programmers"></outline>
						<outline created="Fri, 28 Sep 2012 15:22:03 GMT" pgfnum="13343" text="Writers"></outline>
						</outline>
					<outline created="Fri, 28 Sep 2012 15:27:41 GMT" pgfnum="13348" text="Starter apps">
						<outline created="Fri, 28 Sep 2012 15:27:50 GMT" pgfnum="13349" text="In 1984 the Mac could never have made it without MacWrite and MacPaint. "></outline>
						<outline created="Fri, 28 Sep 2012 16:37:08 GMT" pgfnum="13387" text="Gave developers something to emulate. "></outline>
						<outline created="Fri, 28 Sep 2012 16:41:07 GMT" pgfnum="13392" text="Helped form the coral reef."></outline>
						</outline>
					<outline created="Fri, 28 Sep 2012 15:29:18 GMT" pgfnum="13350" text="Where's the catch?">
						<outline created="Fri, 28 Sep 2012 15:22:50 GMT" pgfnum="13346" text="My goal is to deliver an outline-based writing, design and coding platform, and have there be &lt;i&gt;no catch. &lt;/i&gt;"></outline>
						<outline created="Fri, 28 Sep 2012 16:51:19 GMT" pgfnum="13394" text="No hidden business model. Nothing I have to prove other than you can do all this at the same time. "></outline>
						<outline created="Fri, 28 Sep 2012 16:52:24 GMT" pgfnum="13395" text="I may want to sell something, but you will always have choice to buy or not. Or buy from someone else."></outline>
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					</outline>
				<outline created="Fri, 28 Sep 2012 14:57:56 GMT" name="thisIsAnotherTest" pgfnum="13333" text="This is another test" type="thread">
					<outline created="Fri, 28 Sep 2012 14:55:59 GMT" pgfnum="13330" text="I just moved the r2.ly url shortener to a different server."></outline>
					<outline created="Fri, 28 Sep 2012 14:56:19 GMT" pgfnum="13331" text="If you came here through the &lt;a href=&quot;http://0d4.r2.ly/&quot;&gt;r2.ly link&lt;/a&gt;, then everything is working a-ok."></outline>
					<outline created="Fri, 28 Sep 2012 14:56:35 GMT" pgfnum="13332" text="This has been a test. :-)"></outline>
					</outline>
				<outline created="Fri, 28 Sep 2012 13:09:43 GMT" name="sitesShouldHaveAReadableButton" pgfnum="13324" text="Sites should have a &quot;readable&quot; button" type="thread">
					<outline created="Fri, 28 Sep 2012 13:09:50 GMT" pgfnum="13325" text="&lt;img src=&quot;http://scripting.com/images/2012/09/28/bug.gif&quot; width=&quot;145&quot; height=&quot;66&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; style=&quot;float: right; padding-left: 15px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-top: 10px; padding-right: 15px;&quot; alt=&quot;A picture named bug.gif&quot;&gt;I'm finding myself using &lt;a href=&quot;http://readability.com/&quot;&gt;Readability&lt;/a&gt; to link to stories that for whatever reason are not imho readable. If I can't read it without using Readability (my eyes are not young anymore, and need a bit larger type, and I will not send out links to interstitial-limited sites) then I send out a Readability-processed link instead. It in turn points back to the original, if you want to see the ads, or squint at the tiny type. I'm calling on all site designers to spend 2013 working on making their sites work for readers. We're the reason you make your sites in the first place. Otherwise, why bother being in the writing business. It's not very profitable, I hear. "></outline>
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				<outline created="Fri, 28 Sep 2012 13:02:51 GMT" name="romneyAsAHumanBeing" pgfnum="13314" pubDate="Fri, 28 Sep 2012 13:25:53 GMT" text="Romney as human being" type="thread">
					<outline created="Fri, 28 Sep 2012 13:02:57 GMT" pgfnum="13315" text="I was shocked to hear the &lt;a href=&quot;http://dropbox.scripting.com/dave/misc/romneyAsHumanBeing.mp3&quot;&gt;beginning&lt;/a&gt; of Romney's talk at the Clinton Global Initiative. Why?">
						<outline created="Fri, 28 Sep 2012 13:03:22 GMT" pgfnum="13316" text="1. He cracked a joke."></outline>
						<outline created="Fri, 28 Sep 2012 13:03:26 GMT" pgfnum="13317" text="2. It was good."></outline>
						<outline created="Fri, 28 Sep 2012 13:03:28 GMT" pgfnum="13318" text="3. It was self-deprecating."></outline>
						<outline created="Fri, 28 Sep 2012 13:03:34 GMT" pgfnum="13319" text="4. It got the people on his side."></outline>
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					<outline created="Fri, 28 Sep 2012 13:03:48 GMT" pgfnum="13320" text="You gotta wonder why he doesn't show this side of himself when he's not talking to world leaders and fellow rich folk. Like during a debate. Or on the campaign trail."></outline>
					<outline created="Fri, 28 Sep 2012 13:04:24 GMT" pgfnum="13321" text="But it makes his &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2012/08/24/romney_s_birther_joke_mitt_makes_birth_certificate_joke_in_michigan_.html&quot;&gt;birther&lt;/a&gt; &quot;joke&quot; all the more certain to have not been innocent. Here's a guy who isn't tone-deaf to humor. He knows that a good joke has to be self-deprecating or relatively neutral or else it's flat. A good joke tells the truth in a roundabout or surprising way. Furthering an unfair racist insult against an opponent isn't funny. And it's not a sign of him being tone-deaf to humor -- it is however a sign of him having no moral compass. No place he won't go to win. He should have known that people aren't actually that stupid, we get it, even if we aren't in his social or economic class."></outline>
					<outline created="Fri, 28 Sep 2012 13:06:40 GMT" pgfnum="13322" text="I read in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.readability.com/articles/a51muklb&quot;&gt;Politico&lt;/a&gt; that he has plans to do bi-partisan deals in his first 200 days to ease gridlock in Washington and gain the confidence of capital markets. A Republican president has that power, where a Democratic president does not. I'm sure he'd face a rebellion in his own party, but they'd have to get in line. So the question is, if this is his plan, why isn't he telling anyone?"></outline>
					<outline created="Fri, 28 Sep 2012 13:07:50 GMT" pgfnum="13323" text="Maybe Romney, in a desperate last Hail Mary pass, could come clean, dump his own party, throw them under the bus, apologize, and tell the voters what he really plans to do. It's conceivable that might make the race competitive. Not likely, but not impossible. It would be good for the country, regardless. "></outline>
					<outline created="Fri, 28 Sep 2012 13:25:02 GMT" pgfnum="13328" text="If Romney has a human side, doing something good for the country, even if it might not be good for his candidacy or his party, might not be completely unthinkable."></outline>
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				<outline created="Fri, 28 Sep 2012 12:40:29 GMT" name="twitterMayNeedAPlanB" pgfnum="13312" text="Twitter may need a Plan B" type="thread">
					<outline created="Fri, 28 Sep 2012 12:37:04 GMT" pgfnum="15819" text="Sometimes the products of acquired companies fade away, but that's not happening with Instagram, &lt;a href=&quot;http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2012/04/09/facebook-buys-instagram-for-1-billion/&quot;&gt;bought&lt;/a&gt; by Facebook for $1 billion last summer. &quot;Instagram has a greater pull than Twitter on mobile devices&quot; says the latest Comscore report, according to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.fastcompany.com/3001670/instagram-now-bigger-hit-twitter-us-mobiles&quot;&gt;Fast Company&lt;/a&gt;."></outline>
					<outline created="Fri, 28 Sep 2012 12:41:51 GMT" pgfnum="13313" text="Problem for Twitter, with their current developer program, they're shutting down Instagram's photo sharing competitors. Which means there will be little opportunity for a challenger to rise, giving Twitter something to acquire -- assuming their own photo sharing service fails to topple Instagram. Which clearly is &lt;i&gt;not&lt;/i&gt; what's happening."></outline>
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				<outline created="Thu, 27 Sep 2012 23:33:01 GMT" name="obamaAdOn47Percent" pgfnum="13370" text="Romney's 47 percent" type="thread">
					<outline created="Thu, 27 Sep 2012 23:33:21 GMT" pgfnum="13372" text="&lt;iframe width=&quot;560&quot; height=&quot;315&quot; src=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/embed/B9xCCaseop4&quot; frameborder=&quot;0&quot; allowfullscreen&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;"></outline>
					<outline created="Thu, 27 Sep 2012 23:33:13 GMT" pgfnum="13371" text="I've never seen a more powerful political ad."></outline>
					<outline created="Thu, 27 Sep 2012 23:35:21 GMT" pgfnum="13373" text="Also note it was not necessary to quote Romney out of context."></outline>
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				<outline created="Thu, 27 Sep 2012 14:14:11 GMT" name="isRovioLost" pgfnum="13312" text="The Angry Birds platform?" type="thread">
					<outline created="Thu, 27 Sep 2012 14:14:17 GMT" pgfnum="13313" text="&lt;img src=&quot;http://scripting.com/images/2012/09/27/pig.gif&quot; width=&quot;148&quot; height=&quot;142&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; style=&quot;float: right; padding-left: 15px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-top: 10px; padding-right: 15px;&quot; alt=&quot;A picture named pig.gif&quot;&gt;I bought Angry Alex, and really tried to like it, but got bored and gave up. I ended up going through all the old Angry Birds scenarios dating back to the beginning, instead."></outline>
					<outline created="Thu, 27 Sep 2012 14:14:52 GMT" pgfnum="13314" text="Angry Birds is relaxing. I spend my days writing code and prose, communicating and creating. Playing Angry Birds is not about creating (obviously) it's about &lt;i&gt;destroying.&lt;/i&gt; It's a perfect game. "></outline>
					<outline created="Thu, 27 Sep 2012 14:15:34 GMT" pgfnum="13315" text="I'm sure that Rovio wants to grow, make more money, hire more people -- but maybe that wasn't meant to be. Maybe they should be happy with the success of Angry Birds, and try to do things to make their fans happy. No one would begrudge them some more money if they're helping make our downtime more relaxing. "></outline>
					<outline created="Thu, 27 Sep 2012 14:16:33 GMT" pgfnum="13316" text="Anyway, I seriously think that Angry Birds could be a platform, and that's what they're trying to create with these other products -- including the new &lt;a href=&quot;http://gigaom.com/mobile/with-bad-piggies-rovio-strays-further-from-angry-birds-success/&quot;&gt;Bad Piggies&lt;/a&gt;, out today, which I admit I don't even want to try, because the idea seems like another Angry Alex, but this time with an element of the Angry Birds franchise."></outline>
					<outline created="Thu, 27 Sep 2012 14:17:49 GMT" pgfnum="13317" text="Instead, why not release the design tools they use to create Angry Birds scenarios, and open a store of their own. Let creativity rule. Even if the scenarios were just ripoffs of the ones done by Rovio designers, so what. Let's see what people come up with."></outline>
					<outline created="Thu, 27 Sep 2012 14:18:56 GMT" pgfnum="13318" text="An idea -- give the pigs and birds recognizable faces. Of movie stars, baseball players, LeBron James, Carmelo Anthony. Or Republicans and Democrats! There could have been a special scenario around the death of Neil Armstrong that had him and Buzz as birds fighting off lunar pigs (whatever they might look like)."></outline>
					<outline created="Thu, 27 Sep 2012 14:20:08 GMT" pgfnum="13319" text="I think there's still room for a lot of creativity with Angry Birds. Stick with what works Rovio! :-)"></outline>
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				<outline created="Thu, 27 Sep 2012 03:51:45 GMT" name="iWantAGalaxyS3But" pgfnum="13303" text="I want a Galaxy S3 but.." type="thread">
					<outline created="Thu, 27 Sep 2012 03:51:58 GMT" pgfnum="13304" text="&lt;img src=&quot;http://scripting.com/images/2012/09/26/galaxyS3.gif&quot; width=&quot;148&quot; height=&quot;244&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; style=&quot;float: right; padding-left: 15px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-top: 10px; padding-right: 15px;&quot; alt=&quot;A picture named galaxyS3.gif&quot;&gt;I've been reading the reviews on Amazon for the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_c_0_26?url=search-alias%3Delectronics&amp;field-keywords=samsung+galaxy+s3+unlocked&amp;sprefix=Samsung+Galaxy+S3+unlocked%2Caps%2C412&quot;&gt;Samsung Galaxy S3&lt;/a&gt; and I want to buy one, but I don't know which one to get. "></outline>
					<outline created="Thu, 27 Sep 2012 03:56:28 GMT" pgfnum="13309" text="Here's are the constraints."></outline>
					<outline created="Thu, 27 Sep 2012 03:52:41 GMT" pgfnum="13306" text="1. I don't want a plan or a contract, therefore it must be unlocked."></outline>
					<outline created="Thu, 27 Sep 2012 03:52:56 GMT" pgfnum="13307" text="2. It should work with T-Mobile in the US. "></outline>
					<outline created="Thu, 27 Sep 2012 03:53:16 GMT" pgfnum="13308" text="3. Would be nice if I could use it internationally."></outline>
					<outline created="Thu, 27 Sep 2012 03:52:25 GMT" pgfnum="13305" text="I don't want to buy a phone only to find it doesn't work with T-Mobile. I know I should learn what all the different terms mean. Right now it's easier to write a post and ask you guys to tell me what to get. :-)"></outline>
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				<outline created="Wed, 26 Sep 2012 18:31:40 GMT" name="iThoughtTheStenchPieceWasReal" pgfnum="13270" text="I thought &quot;stench&quot; was real" type="thread">
					<outline created="Wed, 26 Sep 2012 18:31:49 GMT" pgfnum="13271" text="Now it &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.buzzfeed.com/rosiegray/some-people-didnt-really-understand-that-romney&quot;&gt;turns out&lt;/a&gt; that Roger Simon's &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0912/81618.html&quot;&gt;piece&lt;/a&gt; about Paul Ryan and the Stench was supposed to be a joke. A few observations."></outline>
					<outline created="Wed, 26 Sep 2012 18:32:16 GMT" pgfnum="13272" text="1. I read the piece, linked to it from my &lt;a href=&quot;http://links.scripting.com/&quot;&gt;linkblog&lt;/a&gt;, even posted a link to a Google News &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.google.com/search?aq=f&amp;btnmeta_news_search=1&amp;gl=us&amp;gs_l=news-cc.3..43j0i3l2j0j0i3j0l6j43i400.2402.2687.0.4539.6.2.0.0.0.0.1764.2700.6-1j0j1.2.0...0.0...1ac.1.zs_PyPcY_QA&amp;hl=en&amp;oq=Stench&amp;q=Stench&amp;tbm=nws&quot;&gt;search&lt;/a&gt; for the word &quot;stench&quot; because I thought it was historic. Like Sarah Palin going rogue in 2008. "></outline>
					<outline created="Wed, 26 Sep 2012 18:38:56 GMT" pgfnum="13277" text="2. It &lt;a href=&quot;http://scripting.com/images/2012/09/26/politico.gif&quot;&gt;doesn't say&lt;/a&gt; it's satire, and Simon is not a satirist. "></outline>
					<outline created="Wed, 26 Sep 2012 18:32:59 GMT" pgfnum="13273" text="3. This is why it's wrong to run April Fools stories, as has become a tradition in the tech world. They're never funny, and you're rarely surprised, and if you are -- is that something a reporter really wants to do to someone who reads them? It would be like a programmer deliberately making software lose data. Not just appear to lose data, and not an accidental bug, but really throw the data away, as some kind of joke."></outline>
					<outline created="Wed, 26 Sep 2012 18:34:31 GMT" pgfnum="13274" text="4. We don't read Politico for this kind of fun. Had it been on The Daily Show or The Onion, we would have known to discount it. But they wouldn't have run it, because it's not funny. "></outline>
					<outline created="Wed, 26 Sep 2012 18:36:02 GMT" pgfnum="13276" text="5. News should struggle to be plain and straight, so we get the information, so we don't have to hunt for it. It's amazing how many times you read a story and they leave out the one thing you would need to know if to act on it. For example, a preview of a football game that doesn't tell you what network it's broadcast on and at what time. Happens far too often. "></outline>
					<outline created="Wed, 26 Sep 2012 18:42:35 GMT" pgfnum="13278" text="6. News itself should not be the story. What arrogance of Simon to think we care what he thinks is funny. If he wants to be a satirist become one. "></outline>
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				<outline created="Wed, 26 Sep 2012 15:49:15 GMT" name="47WasNotAGaffe" pgfnum="13257" text="47% was not a gaffe" type="thread">
					<outline created="Wed, 26 Sep 2012 15:49:24 GMT" pgfnum="13258" text="There are  silly mis-statements that should have no bearing on the outcome of the election. To call them out amounts to &quot;neener neener&quot; and Americans who are undecided or could change their vote are not influenced by them. Who cares if Romney says windows on planes should open? People who are voting for him will forgive it. People who aren't voting for him think it's significant. But no votes change."></outline>
					<outline created="Wed, 26 Sep 2012 15:50:50 GMT" pgfnum="13259" text="But the 47% line was not like that. It was an unusually clear statement of something very obvious about the Republican &lt;a href=&quot;http://scripting.com/stories/2012/03/29/theRepublicanPhilosophy.html&quot;&gt;philosophy&lt;/a&gt;. Actually unprecedented. So important that it could not just bring down Romney, but it should also cause people who vote Republican to take another look at whether that's wise."></outline>
					<outline created="Wed, 26 Sep 2012 15:51:57 GMT" pgfnum="13260" text="I used to vote Republican, for the reason I think a lot of people still do. I want a strong country, one that doesn't waffle. I thought the Democrats were nominating people who, as Romney suggests about Obama, were asking for forgiveness. It started with Carter, again, as he says. I see his election as a response to Watergate and Vietnam. We had just spent a decade doing horrible things, and when the truth was out, we didn't trust ourselves. So we elected someone who would &lt;i&gt;never&lt;/i&gt; commit the sins of Johnson and Nixon. It was the right choice for 1976. But then we forgot, and we elected a series of Presidents who in the end were much worse than either Johnson or Nixon. How much worse? Well the 47% idea really spells it out. "></outline>
					<outline created="Wed, 26 Sep 2012 15:54:31 GMT" pgfnum="13261" text="What we need is to find a balance between the horrible governments of the Republicans and the anemic governments of the Democrats. That's why Clinton is so popular now. Even his Oval Office blowjobs look good. We don't want a saint. But we don't want Cheney or Romney either (don't kid yourself about who we elected in 2000 and 2004, it wasn't Bush, it was Cheney, Bush is a campaigner, a very good one, Cheney is governance). "></outline>
					<outline created="Wed, 26 Sep 2012 15:56:01 GMT" pgfnum="13262" text="It would be nice if we Americans could talk to each other about this, instead of talking through the assholes we keep nominating. That said, Obama is not a terrible compromise, despite the atrocities Greenwald keeps reporting. That will change when we change. He's wrong to blame the government. As long as the Democrats have to run in the Republican environment, they're going to have to keep doing the shit they do to keep the bankers, oil industry, pharma, defense industry etc happy. If we ever decide to use our power, even for a moment, that might change. "></outline>
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				<outline created="Wed, 26 Sep 2012 15:31:50 GMT" name="whyObamaDidntMeetAtUn" pgfnum="13247" text="Why Obama didn't meet at UN" type="thread">
					<outline created="Wed, 26 Sep 2012 15:32:06 GMT" pgfnum="13248" text="I'm not a political reporter, or a partisan (really, I know Repubs think I am, but I'm not), so I can have opinions about these things, and express them, and you don't like it, that's okay."></outline>
					<outline created="Wed, 26 Sep 2012 15:32:46 GMT" pgfnum="13249" text="Anyway..."></outline>
					<outline created="Wed, 26 Sep 2012 15:32:49 GMT" pgfnum="13250" text="This is why President Obama didn't meet with any heads-of-state at the United Nations meeting yesterday."></outline>
					<outline created="Wed, 26 Sep 2012 15:33:07 GMT" pgfnum="13251" text="1. If he met with any of them he would have had to meet with Netanyahu. He certainly couldn't have met with any other leader from the Middle East or North Aftrica without meeting with Netanyahu. The noise from Repubs and the press would have been deafening. "></outline>
					<outline created="Wed, 26 Sep 2012 15:34:35 GMT" pgfnum="13252" text="2. He knows this, better than anyone else -- there is no light between Netanyahu and the neocon part of the Republican Party in the US. They coordinate. Share the same goals. It's as if the Republicans here were of the same government as Netanyahu, much more so than they are of the same government at Obama. The disloyalty to America is disgusting, but it's there nonetheless."></outline>
					<outline created="Wed, 26 Sep 2012 15:35:35 GMT" pgfnum="13253" text="3. If he met with Netanyahu, it would be scripted by Karl Rove, they would all know what to say. Netanyahu, masquerading as the head-of-state of a foreign government, as someone independent from the Republicans, would say something that could be spun by the Republicans as showing that Obama was weak. They would have worked this out before-hand. Karl Rove approved this message&amp;trade;. :-)"></outline>
					<outline created="Wed, 26 Sep 2012 15:36:48 GMT" pgfnum="13254" text="4. Obama figured the cost of meeting with no one would be less than the cost of going through this charade. He's ahead in the polls. He wants basically nothing more than to run the clock on the election. Give the Repubs nothing to latch on to. A meeting with Netanyahu would give them the opportunity to push him into a corner. "></outline>
					<outline created="Wed, 26 Sep 2012 15:37:58 GMT" pgfnum="13255" text="The press, I suppose, has to pretend that there's no coordination between the Republican neocons here and the Israeli neocons there, but Obama actually isn't weak, and &lt;i&gt;certainly&lt;/i&gt; isn't stupid. There's no reason he should give them ammo. Stay the course. Whatever negative publicity comes from this will pass quickly, because he didn't give the neocons any soundbites or photo-ops to grab onto. "></outline>
					<outline created="Wed, 26 Sep 2012 15:45:46 GMT" pgfnum="13256" text="PS: My link shortener chose this URL for this post. &lt;a href=&quot;http://0bb.r2.ly/&quot;&gt;http://0bb.r2.ly/&lt;/a&gt;. I swear I didn't choose it. "></outline>
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				<outline created="Tue, 25 Sep 2012 14:50:51 GMT" name="problemPostingToTwitter" pgfnum="13172" text="Problem posting to Twitter" type="thread">
					<outline created="Tue, 25 Sep 2012 15:23:36 GMT" pgfnum="13180" text="I moved this note to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://worknotes.scripting.com/september2012/92512ByDw/problemPostingToTwitter&quot;&gt;worknotes&lt;/a&gt; site."></outline>
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				<outline created="Mon, 24 Sep 2012 16:26:37 GMT" name="todaysPodcast" pgfnum="13160" text="Today's podcast" type="thread">
					<outline created="Mon, 24 Sep 2012 16:26:43 GMT" pgfnum="13161" text="When you've had a chance to listen to today's &lt;a href=&quot;http://static.scripting.com/myReallySimple/2012/09/24/davecast2012sep24.m4a&quot;&gt;podcast&lt;/a&gt;, ">
						<outline created="Mon, 24 Sep 2012 16:28:40 GMT" pgfnum="13164" text="1. Please post a note here using the OPML Editor. "></outline>
						<outline created="Mon, 24 Sep 2012 16:28:44 GMT" pgfnum="13165" text="2. Following the instructions on this &lt;a href=&quot;http://threads2.scripting.com/2012/september/aTestOfOutlineComments&quot;&gt;page&lt;/a&gt;. "></outline>
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					<outline created="Mon, 24 Sep 2012 16:27:58 GMT" pgfnum="13162" text="When you come back here look for the &lt;a href=&quot;http://scripting.com/images/2012/09/10/greenOpmlButton.gif&quot;&gt;green button&lt;/a&gt;. "></outline>
					<outline created="Mon, 24 Sep 2012 16:29:01 GMT" pgfnum="13166" text="Refresh the page if necessary. "></outline>
					<outline created="Mon, 24 Sep 2012 16:28:04 GMT" pgfnum="13163" text="You &lt;i&gt;can&lt;/i&gt; do it! :-)"></outline>
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				<outline created="Mon, 24 Sep 2012 13:35:03 GMT" name="levelPlayingFieldsForDiscourse" pgfnum="13145" text="Open fields for discourse" type="thread">
					<outline created="Mon, 24 Sep 2012 13:05:56 GMT" pgfnum="13146" text="Interesting &lt;a href=&quot;https://medium.com/p/1494ba605b0e&quot;&gt;post&lt;/a&gt; by Josh Miller on Medium about open discussions, in reply to a post by Fred Wilson. It's interesting because Josh is the lead developer of Branch, a discussion system -- and Fred is the backer, and public face for Disqus, the discussion software we use here. "></outline>
					<outline created="Mon, 24 Sep 2012 13:07:27 GMT" pgfnum="13148" text="Fred argues that his blog is open to anyone to participate, but I've noticed what Josh has. While Fred, admirably responds to every comment on his system -- we're not getting much engagement beyond -- hey I'm here. To which you can reply and I'm here, and so am I, etc etc. "></outline>
					<outline created="Mon, 24 Sep 2012 13:15:42 GMT" pgfnum="13149" text="These aren't really discussions, not in any sense that peoples' minds come open to being changed. People come to recite their beliefs, they skim the posts and comments for key words, and then choose from a set of schpiels they memorized, and type them in. "></outline>
					<outline created="Mon, 24 Sep 2012 13:16:08 GMT" pgfnum="13150" text="Online discussions can be a lot like those on CNN or MSNBC, which to me seem like concerts. People are invited to sing their songs, in harmony with other songsters. The songs never vary. The volume does, and each has their own style, but there are rarely any new ideas. "></outline>
					<outline created="Mon, 24 Sep 2012 13:17:03 GMT" pgfnum="13151" text="To me, a good discussion is where a new perspective or fact can surface, and everyone has the possibility come away from the discussion changed. Smarter, better informed, with a possibly shifted point of view. Oh &lt;i&gt;that's&lt;/i&gt; what they mean when they say... "></outline>
					<outline created="Mon, 24 Sep 2012 13:17:28 GMT" pgfnum="13152" text="Miller may be on to something. Branch allows discussion among a pre-set group of people. The moderator, the person who started the discussion can add new people. And new discussions can fork off from previous ones, exactly as it worked on my LBBS system in the early-mid 80s, only prettier (that was in the day of 300 baud modems, and scrolling &quot;glass teletype&quot; displays). "></outline>
					<outline created="Mon, 24 Sep 2012 13:19:42 GMT" pgfnum="13153" text="I still like the idea behind the H20 system developed at Berkman Center about ten years ago. It also had the concept of invited participants. To start, each would post positions on a moderator-supplied topic, privately. Then at a previously announced time, all the positions are revealed. There's a commenting period where each participant can write a rebuttal, again in private. They're revealed all at once. And that's it. The goal is to cover all sides of a topic, intelligently and not personally. Not surprising this was developed at a law school, by lawyers. It's a very legal approach to discourse."></outline>
					<outline created="Mon, 24 Sep 2012 13:21:48 GMT" pgfnum="13154" text="What we really need are experimental platforms for non-programmers to invent new methods of discourse. We've relied too much on programmers, who have a definite style of arguing. But there are other professions that are fairly far ahead of us in understanding how humans communicate and share ideas. We are not that good at it, and so far most discussion systems have been limited by the imaginations of programmers."></outline>
					<outline created="Mon, 24 Sep 2012 13:23:31 GMT" pgfnum="13155" text="BTW, a final note -- in case it isn't obvious -- I am also working on discussion software. There is a place to comment in Disqus, that's open to anyone. There's another way to participate here, by installing the OPML Editor and clicking on the green button you will see when you reload the page with the software installed on your computer. Instructions are on &lt;a href=&quot;http://threads2.scripting.com/2012/september/aTestOfOutlineComments&quot;&gt;this page&lt;/a&gt;."></outline>
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				<outline created="Mon, 24 Sep 2012 03:22:47 GMT" name="whyDidntAppleEaseIntoMaps" pgfnum="13134" text="Why didn't Apple ease into maps?" type="thread">
					<outline text="&lt;rules&gt;">
						<outline created="Fri, 10 Feb 2012 19:26:27 GMT" pgfnum="12669" text="&lt;rule&gt;">
							<outline created="Sat, 04 Feb 2012 19:09:43 GMT" pgfnum="4926" text="&lt;no-icons&gt;false&lt;/no-icons&gt;"></outline>
							<outline created="Fri, 10 Feb 2012 19:26:30 GMT" pgfnum="12670" text="&lt;/rule&gt;"></outline>
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						<outline text="&lt;/rules&gt;"></outline>
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					<outline created="Mon, 24 Sep 2012 02:32:25 GMT" pgfnum="13118" text="When Apple switches basic technology it's almost always done in a gradual way, in stages. ">
						<outline created="Mon, 24 Sep 2012 02:54:30 GMT" pgfnum="13126" text="1. First, it's optional. Only for the most adventurous users, developers usually. "></outline>
						<outline created="Mon, 24 Sep 2012 02:54:39 GMT" pgfnum="13128" text="2. Next, it's the default, but you can still run the old apps in a compatibility box."></outline>
						<outline created="Mon, 24 Sep 2012 02:54:53 GMT" pgfnum="13129" text="3. Then they require you to install special software to run the old style stuff. "></outline>
						<outline created="Mon, 24 Sep 2012 02:55:23 GMT" pgfnum="13130" text="4. Then they introduce a version of the platform that only runs the new stuff. "></outline>
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					<outline created="Mon, 24 Sep 2012 02:33:51 GMT" pgfnum="13119" text="Apple technologies that have transitioned like that include the switchover from the 68K processor to the PowerPC. Then from the PowerPC to Intel. They brought in the NeXT OS that way. It took many years before they shipped a version of the OS that would not run Mac apps from before the transition to NeXT."></outline>
					<outline created="Mon, 24 Sep 2012 02:36:03 GMT" pgfnum="13121" text="People think they're doing that with app distribution on the Macintosh. And some people even think they're phasing out the Mac OS and that at some point they will say that Mac apps are &quot;legacy&quot; and eventually will ship a platform that only runs iOS apps. But that would have to be a long ways off, five or ten years, if ever. "></outline>
					<outline text="But this time Apple didn't do a gradual ease-in of their new maps platform. One day we had a maps platform  by Google that mostly worked. It was replaced with Apple's maps technology which is most definitely not ready for end-users. And the Google maps platform is no longer available. It's a remarkably discontinuous change.">
						<outline collapse="true" created="Mon, 24 Sep 2012 02:35:51 GMT" pgfnum="13120" text="Screen shot.">
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					<outline created="Mon, 24 Sep 2012 02:57:43 GMT" pgfnum="13131" text="It seems they could have shipped iOS 6 with the Google maps platform, and with a new app from Apple that implements their new maps technology. That would get it hundreds of thousands of users, immediately. The most change-averse users would stick with the existing maps app. And the power users, the insiders, those closest to Apple would help them fix the glitches and smooth things out so it would be ready in a year or two for the average iPhone or iPad users."></outline>
					<outline created="Mon, 24 Sep 2012 03:08:38 GMT" pgfnum="13133" text="They certainly haven't explained to users why they didn't also ship a Google maps platform. It's not as if the Google software won't run on the new version of the operating system. You can go to &lt;a href=&quot;https://maps.google.com/&quot;&gt;maps.google.com&lt;/a&gt; in Safari, and it works as before. "></outline>
					<outline created="Mon, 24 Sep 2012 02:38:31 GMT" pgfnum="13122" text="User communities are layered. Think of concentric circles, like the layers of an onion. There's an inner core of users who are developers. They get the earliest releases of software, and know that what they're getting is both buggy and subject to change. They want that stuff, because they want to be ready when it ships with their own apps. After that there are enthusiasts. People who get glory from being early with the latest stuff. They also don't mind so much putting up with buggy or incomplete software. It validates their view of themselves as pioneers. And there are many more layers of expertise and tolerance for weird behavior, all the way out to the prototype end-end-user -- our mothers. "></outline>
					<outline created="Mon, 24 Sep 2012 03:02:18 GMT" pgfnum="13132" text="It's surprising they would subject all levels of users to the quirkiest software, the stuff that usually only developers have to use, especially mapping software which is integral to using mobile devices. It's almost as if the NYC transit authority introduced new software for the subways, it's really that important these days to getting around. It's a very radical shift, with lots of problems, and they haven't provided an explanation of why it is this way. What other changes like this will they make? Why the change? What other Apple platforms are subject to this kind of change?"></outline>
					<outline created="Mon, 24 Sep 2012 02:44:37 GMT" pgfnum="13125" text="See also: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/24/technology/apples-feud-with-google-is-now-felt-on-the-iphone.html?_r=1&amp;partner=rss&amp;emc=rss&quot;&gt;Apple's Feud With Google Is Now Felt on the iPhone&lt;/a&gt;. "></outline>
					<outline created="Fri, 28 Sep 2012 17:14:53 GMT" pgfnum="13401" text="Update: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.apple.com/letter-from-tim-cook-on-maps/&quot;&gt;Letter from Tim Cook to users re maps&lt;/a&gt;."></outline>
					</outline>
				<outline created="Sun, 23 Sep 2012 15:10:06 GMT" name="asARenewedKnicksFan" pgfnum="13088" text="As a renewed Knicks fan" type="thread">
					<outline created="Sun, 23 Sep 2012 15:10:13 GMT" pgfnum="13089" text="I was a Knicks fan in the late 60s and early 70s. Then I went away until early this year. Jeremy Lin is what brought me back. "></outline>
					<outline created="Sun, 23 Sep 2012 15:10:49 GMT" pgfnum="13090" text="I know a lot about last year's roster. But I can only gather by listening to echoes of Knicks fan frustration that there were some horrible years before that. The names mean nothing to me. But one by one they come back, I read the stories, and they all say the same thing."></outline>
					<outline created="Sun, 23 Sep 2012 15:12:07 GMT" pgfnum="13091" text="This is a crazy team. "></outline>
					<outline created="Sun, 23 Sep 2012 15:12:20 GMT" pgfnum="13092" text="And they reject luck. They have to be smarter than fate. And they make huge impulsive decisions that turn out badly. And keep doing them. Over and over. "></outline>
					<outline created="Sun, 23 Sep 2012 15:12:58 GMT" pgfnum="13093" text="If I didn't know better I'd say the team is run by an idiot."></outline>
					</outline>
				<outline created="Sun, 23 Sep 2012 13:55:13 GMT" name="humanityDoesntScale" pgfnum="13081" text="Humanity doesn't scale" type="thread">
					<outline created="Sun, 23 Sep 2012 13:55:24 GMT" pgfnum="13082" text="&lt;img src=&quot;http://scripting.com/images/2012/09/23/corn.gif&quot; width=&quot;135&quot; height=&quot;161&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; style=&quot;float: right; padding-left: 25px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-top: 10px; padding-right: 15px;&quot; alt=&quot;A picture named corn.gif&quot;&gt;Everywhere you look there's evidence."></outline>
					<outline created="Sun, 23 Sep 2012 13:55:34 GMT" pgfnum="13083" text="So many of the systems we've built work nice, for now, but when one component fails, how will all the others respond. How is Japan dealing with the Fukishima meltdown? This is a country that depends on nuclear heavily -- they have no oil of their own, and their economy isn't so strong, so what do they do now that they've had a taste of what nuclear-mageddon looks like."></outline>
					<outline created="Sun, 23 Sep 2012 13:56:54 GMT" pgfnum="13084" text="Great &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/23/technology/data-centers-waste-vast-amounts-of-energy-belying-industry-image.html?hp=&amp;pagewanted=all&quot;&gt;piece&lt;/a&gt; in today's NYT about data centers. Nice illusion there, but it's not sustainable. Yes that's where our bank balances and medical records are stored. "></outline>
					<outline created="Sun, 23 Sep 2012 13:59:20 GMT" pgfnum="13087" text="What if something happened to corn? Or if we run out of antibiotics? Believe it or not the questions are related. Something that seems as as reliable as corn might not always be so. "></outline>
					<outline created="Sun, 23 Sep 2012 13:57:47 GMT" pgfnum="13085" text="And philosophically and intellectually our minds can't grasp the complexity of the world we live in. That's why politicians who talk nonsense are so convincing. What they're really saying is Relax don't worry, things aren't really as complex as they seem. I can reduce it down to grunts and snorts. "></outline>
					<outline created="Sun, 23 Sep 2012 13:58:50 GMT" pgfnum="13086" text="We have far more people doing far more with technology than our resources can support, than our intellect can comprehend. It's exhausting."></outline>
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				<outline created="Sat, 22 Sep 2012 21:24:18 GMT" name="doesSlateReallyOnlyHaveOneFeed" pgfnum="13052" text="Favorite movie reviews feeds?" type="thread">
					<outline text="&lt;rules&gt;">
						<outline created="Fri, 10 Feb 2012 19:26:27 GMT" pgfnum="12669" text="&lt;rule&gt;">
							<outline created="Sat, 04 Feb 2012 19:09:43 GMT" pgfnum="4926" text="&lt;no-icons&gt;false&lt;/no-icons&gt;"></outline>
							<outline created="Sat, 04 Feb 2012 19:09:43 GMT" pgfnum="4926" text="&lt;line-height&gt;130%&lt;/line-height&gt;"></outline>
							<outline created="Fri, 10 Feb 2012 19:26:30 GMT" pgfnum="12670" text="&lt;/rule&gt;"></outline>
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					<outline created="Sat, 22 Sep 2012 21:24:27 GMT" pgfnum="13053" text="I'm putting together &lt;a href=&quot;http://tabs.mediahackers.org/?panel=movies&quot;&gt;movie reviews&lt;/a&gt; panel for &lt;a href=&quot;http://tabs.mediahackers.org/&quot;&gt;Media Hackers&lt;/a&gt;."></outline>
					<outline created="Sun, 23 Sep 2012 04:32:44 GMT" name="heresTheListOfFeedsSoFar" pgfnum="13057" text="&lt;b&gt;Here's the list of feeds so far.&lt;/b&gt;" type="include" url="http://dropbox.scripting.com/dave/readingLists/movies.opml"></outline>
					<outline created="Sat, 22 Sep 2012 21:30:21 GMT" pgfnum="13056" text="If you have any suggestions of movie review feeds, please post a link here as a comment. &lt;i&gt;Thanks!&lt;/i&gt;"></outline>
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				<outline created="Sat, 22 Sep 2012 12:37:20 GMT" name="commentsOnCostoloTalk" pgfnum="13034" text="Comments on Costolo talk" type="thread">
					<outline text="&lt;rules&gt;">
						<outline created="Fri, 10 Feb 2012 19:26:27 GMT" pgfnum="12669" text="&lt;rule&gt;">
							<outline created="Sat, 04 Feb 2012 19:09:43 GMT" pgfnum="4926" text="&lt;no-icons&gt;false&lt;/no-icons&gt;"></outline>
							<outline created="Sat, 04 Feb 2012 19:09:43 GMT" pgfnum="4926" text="&lt;line-height&gt;130%&lt;/line-height&gt;"></outline>
							<outline created="Fri, 10 Feb 2012 19:26:30 GMT" pgfnum="12670" text="&lt;/rule&gt;"></outline>
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					<outline created="Sat, 22 Sep 2012 12:37:26 GMT" pgfnum="13035" text="I didn't catch the whole of Dick Costolo's &lt;a href=&quot;http://ona12.journalists.org/sessions/keynote-conversation-dick-costolo-and-emily-bell/&quot;&gt;talk&lt;/a&gt; with Emily Bell at ONA, but I did get to hear the &lt;a href=&quot;http://static.scripting.com/myReallySimple/2012/09/21/dickcostolointerview.mp3&quot;&gt;part&lt;/a&gt; about developers and APIs. I think this part also relates indirectly to journalists who use Twitter."></outline>
					<outline created="Sat, 22 Sep 2012 12:38:22 GMT" pgfnum="13036" text="1. Twitter will provide a way for users to download their history of posts to Twitter.">
						<outline created="Sat, 22 Sep 2012 12:46:38 GMT" pgfnum="13044" text="I was amazed by this. And I don't believe it will ever happen, or if it does it will be in GIF format or PDF, some format that makes it virtually impossible to move the data somewhere else. It would be completely inconsistent for Twitter to offer freedom to its users when it's paying such a high price in goodwill to take away that freedom. "></outline>
						<outline created="Sat, 22 Sep 2012 12:47:39 GMT" pgfnum="13045" text="I think Costolo was caught off-guard by a clever question asked by Ms. Bell, and did what a lot of tech execs do, promise a solution even when they have no idea how to do it, figuring later on they can excuse themselves with a shrug or a joke (as he did in several other instances in this talk, when asked about previous commitments). "></outline>
						<outline created="Sat, 22 Sep 2012 13:39:59 GMT" pgfnum="13036" text="Another clue is that he immediately qualified it as being subject to engineering realities. You could almost see the gears turning in his head. :-)"></outline>
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					<outline created="Sat, 22 Sep 2012 12:38:54 GMT" pgfnum="13037" text="2. Think of 140 characters as a caption. This is consistent with what they're doing. People who argue that 140 characters is some kind of sacred limit are wrong. They should listen to what Costolo says. ">
						<outline created="Sat, 22 Sep 2012 12:39:34 GMT" pgfnum="13038" text="I think this the right move, not just for Twitter but for everyone."></outline>
						<outline created="Sat, 22 Sep 2012 12:39:48 GMT" pgfnum="13039" text="But it has implications that some journalists might not see. It means that there is no reason why Twitter couldn't host entire news articles. I am sure they will be doing that, probably fairly soon. I suspect this ability will not be open to everyone, and they will want favorable terms for those it permits to use this feature. Presumably there will be a revenue-share on ads placed on these articles."></outline>
						<outline created="Sat, 22 Sep 2012 12:41:17 GMT" pgfnum="13040" text="Also play what-if -- what if Twitter acquires a news organization. Just because they say they are not a news org today does not say anything about the future. Twitter made all kinds of promises to developers that were broken, in total, within a couple of years. "></outline>
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					<outline created="Sat, 22 Sep 2012 12:42:18 GMT" pgfnum="13041" text="3. Emily Bell did a great interview. The audience questions were also right on.">
						<outline created="Sat, 22 Sep 2012 12:42:54 GMT" pgfnum="13042" text="I thought Emily Bell did a masterful job of raising these questions to Costolo, but in a disarmingly friendly way. To Costolo's credit he didn't always take the bait. He stuck with the idea that they are a tech company providing a platform, and are not going to cross into content. But he didn't &lt;i&gt;exactly&lt;/i&gt; say that. "></outline>
						<outline created="Sat, 22 Sep 2012 13:43:05 GMT" pgfnum="13037" text="If I were a betting man, I'd bet that before too long Twitter will be competing with its top content providers, the same way it's now competing with its top developers. Only they'll have to tread more carefully there, assuming the journalists and bloggers still have their own mechanisms to get news out. That's why this is such a dangerous situation. As we rely more and more on Twitter, our websites become less-used conduits for distribution of ideas and news."></outline>
						<outline created="Sat, 22 Sep 2012 12:44:10 GMT" pgfnum="13043" text="Obviously I believe Twitter is today a totally inadequate platform for independent journalists or bloggers and it's going in the wrong direction. They score points for not turning over tweets to governments, but they have an awful track record of tiliting the playing field to favor their partners and even personal friends. This is a very sloppily run platform for both development and journalism. People either don't know the history or are choosing to ignore it, presumably because building their own platforms seems difficult, expensive, or unlikely to succeed. However, the longer you wait the harder it will become, not easier. "></outline>
						<outline created="Sat, 22 Sep 2012 14:08:27 GMT" pgfnum="13038" text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monoculture&quot;&gt;Monocultures&lt;/a&gt; don't work very well for news. "></outline>
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				<outline created="Fri, 21 Sep 2012 18:29:04 GMT" name="itsAFloorwaxAndADessertTopping" pgfnum="13014" text="A comment *and* a blog post" type="thread">
					<outline created="Sat, 04 Feb 2012 20:16:53 GMT" pgfnum="4929" text="&lt;rules&gt;">
						<outline created="Sat, 04 Feb 2012 19:09:33 GMT" pgfnum="4925" text="&lt;rule&gt;">
							<outline text="&lt;no-icons&gt;false&lt;/no-icons&gt;"></outline>
							<outline created="Sat, 04 Feb 2012 19:09:53 GMT" pgfnum="4927" text="&lt;/rule&gt;"></outline>
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						<outline created="Sat, 04 Feb 2012 20:16:55 GMT" pgfnum="4930" text="&lt;/rules&gt;"></outline>
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					<outline created="Fri, 21 Sep 2012 19:10:48 GMT" pgfnum="13032" text="Now, any &lt;a href=&quot;http://threads2.scripting.com/2012/september/aTestOfOutlineComments&quot;&gt;OPML Comment&lt;/a&gt; can be viewed as a blog post, with its own comments."></outline>
					<outline created="Fri, 21 Sep 2012 19:11:13 GMT" pgfnum="13033" text="The links below show how it works."></outline>
					<outline created="Sat, 10 Mar 2012 16:28:02 GMT" pgfnum="6228" text="&lt;rules <rules><rule level="0" to="2"><list-space>10px;</list-space></rule><rule level="1" to="1"><font-weight>bold</font-weight><outline-space-before>10px;</outline-space-before></rule><rule level="2" to="2"><outline-indent>0</outline-indent></rule><rule level="3" to="infinity"><outline-indent>30px</outline-indent></rule></rules>&gt;"></outline>
					<outline created="Fri, 21 Sep 2012 18:44:39 GMT" pgfnum="13025" text="Links">
						<outline created="Fri, 21 Sep 2012 18:45:21 GMT" pgfnum="13028" text="An &lt;a href=&quot;http://threads2.scripting.com/2012/september/itsAFloorwaxAndADessertTopping#daveWiner&quot;&gt;example&lt;/a&gt; of a comment on this page."></outline>
						<outline created="Fri, 21 Sep 2012 18:48:49 GMT" pgfnum="13031" text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://comments.scripting.com/031/109&quot;&gt;Flip&lt;/a&gt; it over and here's the blogpost view."></outline>
						<outline created="Fri, 21 Sep 2012 18:44:42 GMT" pgfnum="13026" text="There's a &lt;a href=&quot;http://static.scripting.com/pensacola/comments/rss.xml&quot;&gt;feed&lt;/a&gt; of all the comments."></outline>
						<outline created="Fri, 21 Sep 2012 18:45:13 GMT" pgfnum="13027" text="You can &lt;a href=&quot;http://comments.scripting.com/&quot;&gt;browse&lt;/a&gt; the comments here."></outline>
						<outline created="Fri, 21 Sep 2012 18:47:20 GMT" pgfnum="13030" text="Of course that's &lt;a href=&quot;http://static.scripting.com/pensacola/comments/index.opml&quot;&gt;available&lt;/a&gt; in OPML."></outline>
						<outline created="Fri, 21 Sep 2012 18:45:45 GMT" pgfnum="13029" text="There's a link to the comments in the Scripting News &lt;a href=&quot;http://scripting.com/images/2012/09/21/commentsInMenubar.gif&quot;&gt;menubar&lt;/a&gt;."></outline>
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				<outline created="Fri, 21 Sep 2012 14:56:01 GMT" name="anOpenNoteToDoc" pgfnum="12985" text="An open note to Doc" type="thread">
					<outline created="Fri, 21 Sep 2012 14:56:05 GMT" pgfnum="12986" text="My longtime friend Doc Searls and an outliner guy going back many years is now using the OPML Editor and has started to post items to the OPML Comments community. "></outline>
					<outline created="Fri, 21 Sep 2012 14:56:50 GMT" pgfnum="12987" text="The community starts with the humble concept of a comment, and develops out from there, to create all the essential elements of an online community, but one built around replaceable parts. ">
						<outline created="Fri, 21 Sep 2012 15:11:54 GMT" pgfnum="12992" text="Small pieces loosely joined. It's the philosophy of Unix from the 70s, the PC world of the 80s, the Mac of the mid-late 80s and early 90s, the web and open source communities of the 90s, and the beginnings of Web 2.0 -- blogging, podcasting, RSS. "></outline>
						</outline>
					<outline created="Fri, 21 Sep 2012 14:58:32 GMT" pgfnum="12988" text="It's a good moment, because Doc has wicked way of writing about this stuff. His stories are very different from mine. He goes deep on photography, radio, geography, airplanes. But when it comes to formats and protocols, we are on exactly the same page. He's on the odd-numbered side, and I'm on the even-numbered one. But it's the same idea, flip sides."></outline>
					<outline created="Fri, 21 Sep 2012 15:02:36 GMT" pgfnum="12990" text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matryoshka_doll&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://scripting.com/images/2012/09/13/dolls.gif&quot; width=&quot;259&quot; height=&quot;195&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; style=&quot;float: right; padding-left: 15px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-top: 10px; padding-right: 15px;&quot; alt=&quot;A picture named dolls.gif&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;It's a good time to write this story, because the very people that Twitter is pushing out the nest are the  ones we want to work with. There will be competition for their hearts and minds. Evan and Biz are launching Medium. One of their colleagues is launching Branch. app.net is out there. There will be lots of new communities vying for the attention for the most creative and intelligent people on the web. "></outline>
					<outline created="Fri, 21 Sep 2012 15:04:26 GMT" pgfnum="12991" text="By actively participating, I hope to nudge all the new bootstrappers to share data with each other. So the users can not only delight in the experiences each of our software can create, but also in the magic they can create by &lt;i&gt;combining&lt;/i&gt; our tools to create new online communities that the software architects would never imagine. "></outline>
					<outline created="Fri, 21 Sep 2012 15:14:16 GMT" pgfnum="12993" text="My belief is that if the right design, programming and writing tools are out there, and we foster easy movement of ideas, the amazing things we could only dream of in the past will come into existence. There are hundreds of millions of people in the world now whose minds share the space of the Internet. It can get a lot richer. They're ready for it. "></outline>
					<outline created="Fri, 21 Sep 2012 14:59:58 GMT" pgfnum="12989" text="Anyway, this is an invitation to Doc to post a response below, in the outline that's attached to my post. I would like to read a Doc ramble on these topics. It would be good for my soul. Then I will show you another way of looking at what Doc wrote. "></outline>
					<outline created="Sun, 23 Sep 2012 16:35:32 GMT" pgfnum="13105" text="Update: Doc posted a comment. And it appears on its &lt;a href=&quot;http://comments.scripting.com/030/116&quot;&gt;own page&lt;/a&gt;, where you can comment on his comment."></outline>
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				<outline created="Fri, 21 Sep 2012 03:09:02 GMT" name="aNewFeatureSneak" pgfnum="12978" text="A new feature sneak" type="thread">
					<outline created="Fri, 21 Sep 2012 03:09:17 GMT" pgfnum="12979" text="Tomorrow I'm going to write up a new feature that's now &quot;out in the wild.&quot;"></outline>
					<outline created="Fri, 21 Sep 2012 03:09:35 GMT" pgfnum="12980" text="Very briefly, every OPML Comment now has a dual life.">
						<outline created="Fri, 21 Sep 2012 03:11:32 GMT" pgfnum="12983" text="1. It's a comment (of course)."></outline>
						<outline created="Fri, 21 Sep 2012 03:11:38 GMT" pgfnum="12984" text="2. It's a blog post."></outline>
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					<outline created="Fri, 21 Sep 2012 03:10:11 GMT" pgfnum="12981" text="If you're subscribed to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://static.scripting.com/pensacola/comments/rss.xml&quot;&gt;feed&lt;/a&gt; of comments from scripting.com, you have already seen this, if you clicked on a link to a comment. If you look at the RSS source, you'll see the &amp;lt;guid&gt; element for each item points to the post. "></outline>
					<outline created="Fri, 21 Sep 2012 03:10:38 GMT" pgfnum="12982" text="More in the morning about what this means, and next directions."></outline>
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				<outline created="Thu, 20 Sep 2012 18:46:30 GMT" name="mapsTweetieAndDbase" pgfnum="12960" text="Maps, Tweetie and dBASE" type="thread">
					<outline text="&lt;rules&gt;">
						<outline created="Fri, 10 Feb 2012 19:26:27 GMT" pgfnum="12669" text="&lt;rule&gt;">
							<outline created="Sat, 04 Feb 2012 19:09:43 GMT" pgfnum="4926" text="&lt;no-icons&gt;false&lt;/no-icons&gt;"></outline>
							<outline created="Fri, 10 Feb 2012 19:26:30 GMT" pgfnum="12670" text="&lt;/rule&gt;"></outline>
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						<outline text="&lt;rule level=&quot;1&quot; to=&quot;2&quot;&gt;">
							<outline created="Sat, 04 Feb 2012 19:09:43 GMT" pgfnum="4926" text="&lt;font-weight&gt;bold&lt;/font-weight&gt;"></outline>
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					<outline created="Thu, 20 Sep 2012 18:46:38 GMT" pgfnum="12961" text="Two examples of potentially disastrous &quot;upgrades&quot; -- ">
						<outline created="Thu, 20 Sep 2012 18:47:06 GMT" pgfnum="12962" text="Maps on iOS">
							<outline created="Thu, 20 Sep 2012 18:47:16 GMT" pgfnum="12963" text="In iOS 6 the &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.google.com/search?q=ios+6+maps&quot;&gt;maps&lt;/a&gt; functionality took a major step backwards. Just shipped yesterday so we're still figuring out how bad it is. Maps are &lt;i&gt;critical functionality for mobile users.&lt;/i&gt; Why it happened, no one knows. Could be that Google pulled out on their own. They might not come back, hoping that maps will be a feature advantage for their Android phones. Remember these companies have been suing each other over patent issues."></outline>
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						<outline created="Thu, 20 Sep 2012 18:48:47 GMT" pgfnum="12964" text="Tweetie">
							<outline created="Thu, 20 Sep 2012 18:48:50 GMT" pgfnum="12965" text="I don't use Twitter clients, but I understand that their iPad app, acquired from &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.google.com/search?q=Loren+Brichter&quot;&gt;Loren Brichter&lt;/a&gt;, was an exemplary iPad app. The new app &lt;a href=&quot;http://daringfireball.net/linked/2012/09/18/twitter-ipad&quot;&gt;apparently&lt;/a&gt; pales in comparison. Again, we don't know how this came to be. But it may be indicative of a similar kind of problem for Twitter."></outline>
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						<outline created="Thu, 20 Sep 2012 18:49:55 GMT" pgfnum="12966" text="Ashton-Tate's dBASE">
							<outline created="Thu, 20 Sep 2012 18:50:04 GMT" pgfnum="12967" text="Ashton-Tate is &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prior_art&quot;&gt;prior art&lt;/a&gt; for self-destructive upgrades. They had a theory that you could ship a new version of a product, in this case &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DBase&quot;&gt;dBASE&lt;/a&gt;, without anyone in the company actually using it. It didn't work. They ended up selling out to a much smaller competitor after this upgrade ruined the company."></outline>
							<outline created="Thu, 20 Sep 2012 18:50:55 GMT" pgfnum="12968" text="So the stakes can be very high."></outline>
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						<outline created="Thu, 20 Sep 2012 19:08:35 GMT" pgfnum="12969" text="Personal note">
							<outline created="Thu, 20 Sep 2012 19:08:40 GMT" pgfnum="12970" text="I learned this one in 1984, when we shipped ThinkTank for the Mac."></outline>
							<outline created="Thu, 20 Sep 2012 19:08:53 GMT" pgfnum="12971" text="People thought we had removed features from ThinkTank, because they had used the Apple II or IBM PC versions. In fact this was a completely new codebase, and we shipped early because there was a lack of software on the Mac. So it didn't have a lot of the features of the earlier product. No matter, the users were outraged by this. They thought they had bought a better computer, and here was the product with less features. We totally didn't anticipate this, because from our point of view it was a major accomplishment to get something out at all. "></outline>
							<outline created="Thu, 20 Sep 2012 19:10:41 GMT" pgfnum="12972" text="As the story goes, the customer is always right. We quickly came out with a new release that added all the features that were in the other versions. "></outline>
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				<outline created="Thu, 20 Sep 2012 14:31:53 GMT" name="aDayOfConstruction" pgfnum="12958" text="A day of construction" type="thread">
					<outline created="Thu, 20 Sep 2012 14:31:58 GMT" pgfnum="12959" text="You may notice some breakage in OPML comments today. I'm radically restructuring the code. In the end it should be totally transparent, except for things that break in the transition. Once they're fixed it'll be transparent again. :-)"></outline>
					</outline>
				<outline created="Wed, 19 Sep 2012 16:16:03 GMT" domain="unweb2.blorkmark.com" menuName="scriptingNewsMenu" name="unweb20" pgfnum="12965" text="Un-Web 2.0" type="thread">
					<outline created="Wed, 19 Sep 2012 16:16:08 GMT" pgfnum="12966" text="You've heard of unconferences. They take the idea of a conference and flip it around. Instead of having speakers on stage, the speakers are in what used to be called the audience. ">
						<outline created="Wed, 19 Sep 2012 16:17:28 GMT" pgfnum="12968" text="The term has been hijacked to mean something much softer, that the planning of the conference is deferred to the day of the conference. But the speeches are still speeches. The audience asks questions. The experts are on stage. Zzzz."></outline>
						<outline created="Wed, 19 Sep 2012 16:17:34 GMT" pgfnum="12969" text="But the original &lt;a href=&quot;http://bloggercon.scripting.com/iv/format.html&quot;&gt;concept&lt;/a&gt;, pioneered at BloggerCon and the term coined by Len Pryor, was deeply disruptive. And it mirrored what blogging was doing to journalism."></outline>
						<outline created="Wed, 19 Sep 2012 18:03:50 GMT" pgfnum="12973" text="Un-Web 2.0 is to Web 2.0 as BloggerCon was to RegularOldCon. And as blogging is to journalism. The source and the destination become one. :-)"></outline>
						</outline>
					<outline text="&lt;rules&gt;">
						<outline text="&lt;rule level=&quot;1&quot; to=&quot;1&quot;&gt;">
							<outline created="Wed, 19 Sep 2012 18:20:47 GMT" pgfnum="12976" text="&lt;no-icons&gt;false&lt;/no-icons&gt;"></outline>
							<outline text="&lt;/rule&gt;"></outline>
							</outline>
						<outline text="&lt;/rules&gt;"></outline>
						</outline>
					<outline created="Wed, 19 Sep 2012 16:18:13 GMT" pgfnum="12970" text="So Web 2.0 was nice, as training wheels for the next steps in the future web. A two-way medium. The people who pioneered Web 2.0 are to be congratulated and thanked. But now it's time to &lt;i&gt;Un&lt;/i&gt; it. :-)"></outline>
					<outline created="Wed, 19 Sep 2012 16:17:22 GMT" pgfnum="12967" text="Because Web 2.0, while it started out as a freedom-inspiring thing, has been coalescing to being a dangerous form of locking-in the user's data so it can be applied to a corporate business model. We all know the dangers of this. It robs platforms of their openness. It makes moving data around impossible. And it makes creating hybrid systems impossible. It's not a very web-like direction for something that's inspired by the web."></outline>
					<outline collapse="true" created="Wed, 19 Sep 2012 18:05:51 GMT" pgfnum="12974" text="If the Web is &lt;i&gt;Small Pieces Loosely Joined,&lt;/i&gt; Web 2.0 is &lt;i&gt;Small Pieces Trapped In A Silo.&lt;/i&gt;">
						<outline created="Wed, 19 Sep 2012 18:19:02 GMT" pgfnum="12975" text="Hat-tip to David Weinberger for the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.smallpieces.com/index.php&quot;&gt;term&lt;/a&gt;. "></outline>
						</outline>
					<outline created="Wed, 19 Sep 2012 16:20:22 GMT" pgfnum="12971" text="In Un-Web 2.0 you get full control of your data, and the services just get pointers to it, or copies of it. The originals live with you. Pointers are much preferable to copies because then you can keep updating the content after it has been incorporated in someone else's content tree."></outline>
					<outline created="Wed, 19 Sep 2012 16:21:35 GMT" pgfnum="12972" text="Food for thought. :-)"></outline>
					</outline>
				<outline created="Wed, 19 Sep 2012 14:12:59 GMT" name="mp3sOfRomneysFundraiser" pgfnum="12948" text="MP3 of Romney's fund-raiser" type="thread">
					<outline created="Wed, 19 Sep 2012 14:13:13 GMT" pgfnum="12949" text="Yesterday I posted a &lt;a href=&quot;http://threads2.scripting.com/2012/september/questionAboutSoundcloud&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt; about the availability of MP3s via SoundCloud. "></outline>
					<outline created="Wed, 19 Sep 2012 15:14:59 GMT" pgfnum="12959" text="I just wanted to listen to this on my walk yesterday. But I also think the MP3s of this should be available outside of SoundCloud's server so they have a chance of surviving over time. So I created an MP3 and uploaded it to my Dropbox account. It's mirrored in my S3 archive. "></outline>
					<outline created="Wed, 19 Sep 2012 14:24:47 GMT" pgfnum="12953" text="&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://dl.dropbox.com/u/36518280/misc/romneyFundraiserMay2012.mp3&quot;&gt;Romney Fundraiser MP3&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;"></outline>
					<outline created="Wed, 19 Sep 2012 14:16:22 GMT" pgfnum="12950" text="BTW, I listened to the full recording as I prepared the MP3 and some of what he says is reasonable. But it doesn't seem consistent that one person would say all these things. For example he talks about what a blessing it is to be born in America. 95 percent of it is taken care of for you. Where did that come from? If you started life as an American you were better-off right from the start than most of the other babies born that day, elsewhere in the world.">
						<outline created="Wed, 19 Sep 2012 15:56:26 GMT" pgfnum="12963" text="As a child of immigrants, I can tell you it's true. My parents emphasized the importance of education and my grandparents did very well financially and were able to create security for all of us. So I got an even better start in life. But clearly none of this would have happened had they not been able to come to the US during WWII. "></outline>
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					<outline created="Wed, 19 Sep 2012 14:18:05 GMT" pgfnum="12951" text="So how can you at the same time feel that America is great and think that 47 percent of us are losers. It doesn't make sense. At least part of what makes us great is that we have some greatness in our people. Or the system that we live in. It's not just a piece of paper, Mitt. ">
						<outline created="Wed, 19 Sep 2012 15:57:55 GMT" pgfnum="12964" text="We aren't voting for Obama because we are victims, or losers -- some of us are doing pretty well. I'm voting for Obama because I think Romney would be a terrible President. Maybe you should try to earn our vote instead of throwing it away. I thought you worked hard? I thought you were a success? Is this how you achieved so much?"></outline>
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					<outline created="Wed, 19 Sep 2012 14:19:18 GMT" pgfnum="12952" text="A note about SoundCloud. By now we should all see the danger of trapping our content on a Web 2.0 company's servers. People say that it was Mother Jones' decision to not allow this to be downlaoded, but there were limits on free accounts, so even if they wanted to let everyone download it, they couldn't as long as they used SC. There are other free services that don't have such limits. For example, Dropbox. We should all be working together to be sure that valuble historic documents like this are adequately preserved. It's &lt;i&gt;not good enough&lt;/i&gt; to upload a recording to a commercial service that doesn't allow downloads. "></outline>
					</outline>
				<outline created="Tue, 18 Sep 2012 23:54:19 GMT" name="questionAboutSoundcloud" pgfnum="12931" text="Question about SoundCloud" type="thread">
					<outline created="Tue, 18 Sep 2012 23:54:25 GMT" pgfnum="12932" text="Earlier this afternoon I was looking for an MP3 of the Romney video. "></outline>
					<outline created="Tue, 18 Sep 2012 23:54:45 GMT" pgfnum="12933" text="I noted that &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/09/watch-full-secret-video-private-romney-fundraiser&quot;&gt;Mother Jones&lt;/a&gt; had SoundCloud versions of the MP3 on the Mother Jones site. But I couldn't find an MP3 download, or a link to an RSS feed for their podcast. "></outline>
					<outline created="Tue, 18 Sep 2012 23:55:21 GMT" pgfnum="12934" text="It's quite possible that I missed it. And that's the question. Is there a link on &lt;a href=&quot;http://soundcloud.com/mother-jones&quot;&gt;this page&lt;/a&gt; for either the MP3 or the RSS feed?"></outline>
					<outline created="Tue, 18 Sep 2012 23:55:47 GMT" pgfnum="12935" text="I don't want to jump to any conclusions without clearly asking this question first. "></outline>
					</outline>
				<outline created="Tue, 18 Sep 2012 15:01:02 GMT" name="dearGreenButtonPeople" pgfnum="12907" text="Dear Green Button People" type="thread">
					<outline created="Tue, 18 Sep 2012 15:01:10 GMT" pgfnum="12908" text="I want to show you something about where we're going. "></outline>
					<outline created="Tue, 18 Sep 2012 15:01:26 GMT" pgfnum="12909" text="Here's a &lt;a href=&quot;http://scripting.com/images/2012/09/18/threadsWindow.gif&quot;&gt;screen shot&lt;/a&gt;. That's how I edit the posts on this site."></outline>
					<outline created="Tue, 18 Sep 2012 15:01:45 GMT" pgfnum="12910" text="Does that look familiar to you? If you've already written a few comments, this is what your Comments Workspace &lt;a href=&quot;http://scripting.com/images/2012/09/18/commentsWorkspace.gif&quot;&gt;looks like&lt;/a&gt;. "></outline>
					<outline created="Tue, 18 Sep 2012 15:02:10 GMT" pgfnum="12911" text="Obviously it's a pretty straight line between taking what's in one window and treating it as if it were in the other window. "></outline>
					<outline created="Tue, 18 Sep 2012 15:02:48 GMT" pgfnum="12912" text="&quot;cheesecake&quot;"></outline>
					<outline created="Tue, 18 Sep 2012 15:10:19 GMT" pgfnum="12913" text="PS: Go &lt;a href=&quot;http://threads2.scripting.com/2012/september/aTestOfOutlineComments&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; to learn about the green buttons."></outline>
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				<outline created="Tue, 18 Sep 2012 12:11:14 GMT" name="juryDutyVotingAndRomney" pgfnum="12878" text="Jury duty, voting and Romney" type="thread">
					<outline created="Tue, 18 Sep 2012 12:11:24 GMT" pgfnum="12879" text="1. Jury duty is amazing. Especially if you go all the way to a verdict. You learn how the architecture of our democracy places its faith in the people. You might think, if you listened to some of our political leaders, that this would be a bad idea. Because most of us are takers not makers. But it works, because people are a lot smarter, honest and hard-working than we give ourselves credit for. And when you trust people, when you really make that point, and the legal process does that, over and over, &lt;i&gt;everyone&lt;/i&gt; comes through. Some people accept trust faster than others, but in the end, all twelve jurors accept their responsibility. When we passed judgement I was sure we had arrived at the correct decision.">
						<outline created="Tue, 18 Sep 2012 12:41:16 GMT" pgfnum="12883" text="As a juror this is impressive. Everyone stands when the jury comes in. But then everyone, including the jury, stands when the judge enters. Speech is formal, polite, even when they're saying horrible things. May it please the court. Your honor. Mr. Jones. It's all about respect. "></outline>
						<outline created="Tue, 18 Sep 2012 12:42:56 GMT" pgfnum="12884" text="And the jurors must remain silent, for days on end. But the irony is that everyone in the room is waiting for us to speak. You are left with your thoughts and your senses. You look, you listen. Think. What does that mean. What are they really saying. Look at the body language. It's deliberative, almost a meditation. Because the question they're asking is serious. Did this person do something horrible. Something they must be punished for. In the US we don't take this lightly. "></outline>
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					<outline created="Tue, 18 Sep 2012 12:14:54 GMT" pgfnum="12880" text="2. Voting is the same idea. You have to look and look at the people who are asking for your vote. Sure they're lying. So was the defendent in the trial. Everyone lies, even if they took the oath saying they wouldn't. Dirty little secret is that if you're on trial, everyone understands that you can lie to defend yourself. And so do politicians. But if you really think about it, you know who they are and what they're really saying, behind the lies."></outline>
					<outline created="Tue, 18 Sep 2012 12:16:13 GMT" pgfnum="12881" text="3. So nothing was actually revealed about Mitt Romney in yesterday's tapes. If you had been watching this guy, like a juror watches every actor in the courtroom, you recognized the pattern. He might have been the guy who runs a company you once worked for. The principal of your school. Your friend's grandfather. To me, he was a Silicon Valley venture capitalist. He was the kind of guy who doesn't know what it means to speak the truth. His existence has nothing to do with the truth. He's a goal-oriented person. He's trying to get something from you. He doesn't care what he has to say to get it. Since he's running for President, a lot of the times that means he's out of his element and you can tell. He's not comfortable with teachers, with working people. But speaking to the rich donors in that dining room, that &lt;i&gt;was&lt;/i&gt; his element. He was comfortable. The same way the defendent in our DUI case would have been comfortable in a bar slamming down a few whiskies before going for a drive. No juror would have been fooled by Mitt Romney before the tape, but what we saw confirmed what we already knew."></outline>
					<outline created="Tue, 18 Sep 2012 12:20:10 GMT" pgfnum="12882" text="I believe in the American system, and totally reject the idea that your vote doesn't matter. You think it doesn't matter because you haven't discovered what it means. If you had a little faith in it, if 25 percent more people had more faith, it would work a lot better than you have imagined. Because given enough time, no matter how much they lie, we figure it out. Change will come slowly but it will come. But don't tell me it can't change if you haven't even tried. "></outline>
					</outline>
				<outline created="Mon, 17 Sep 2012 18:47:02 GMT" name="iFeelALittleLikeAKid" pgfnum="12879" text="I feel a little like a kid" type="thread">
					<outline created="Mon, 17 Sep 2012 18:47:13 GMT" pgfnum="12880" text="When I was a kid, my friends and I used to ride our bikes down to Shea Stadium and sneak in the back, through the bullpen and out on to the field. Only during the off-season. They didn't have much so security back then."></outline>
					<outline created="Mon, 17 Sep 2012 18:47:59 GMT" pgfnum="12881" text="We'd run around on the field, marvelling that we were running in the same place that the great players of the day were playing. Roberto Clemente, Willie Mays, Ron Swoboda, Ed Kranepool. "></outline>
					<outline created="Mon, 17 Sep 2012 18:48:37 GMT" pgfnum="12882" text="Anyway, that's what I feel like now. Like someone left the gate open and I get to run around on the field and play whatever game I want.  :-)"></outline>
					</outline>
				<outline created="Mon, 17 Sep 2012 16:35:55 GMT" name="riverWithJsonencodedOpml" pgfnum="12859" text="River with JSON-encoded OPML" type="thread">
					<outline created="Mon, 17 Sep 2012 16:36:05 GMT" pgfnum="12860" text="This is a very bizarre animal."></outline>
					<outline created="Mon, 17 Sep 2012 16:37:43 GMT" pgfnum="12865" text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://dropbox.scripting.com/dave/misc/riverWithJsonEncodedOPML.js&quot;&gt;http://dropbox.scripting.com/dave/misc/riverWithJsonEncodedOPML.js&lt;/a&gt;"></outline>
					<outline created="Mon, 17 Sep 2012 16:36:11 GMT" pgfnum="12861" text="It's a river.js file that has an item that contains the OPML source encoded as JSON."></outline>
					<outline created="Mon, 17 Sep 2012 16:36:40 GMT" pgfnum="12862" text="This means that a jQuery app that loaded this file would find the OPML structure already there in the DOM. "></outline>
					<outline created="Mon, 17 Sep 2012 16:37:04 GMT" pgfnum="12863" text="We're a short step from having &lt;a href=&quot;http://tabs.mediahackers.org/&quot;&gt;Media Hackers&lt;/a&gt; be able to do something much richer with content."></outline>
					</outline>
				<outline created="Mon, 17 Sep 2012 14:43:01 GMT" name="ows" pgfnum="12834" text="OWS on its anniversary" type="thread">
					<outline created="Mon, 17 Sep 2012 14:43:05 GMT" pgfnum="12835" text="I've started a half-dozen posts about Occupy Wall Street on its anniversary. Here goes another. "></outline>
					<outline created="Mon, 17 Sep 2012 14:43:28 GMT" pgfnum="12836" text="This close to a national election, I wish they were doing something to try to influence the outcome. What they're doing will just remind people about last year's occupations. I think most people who sympathize with or agree with the premises of OWS (I am one) were concerned with how it would end. Is this really a protest we want to associate with? Becoming homeless and going to jail to make headlines is not my idea of good craftsmanship of political message. "></outline>
					<outline created="Mon, 17 Sep 2012 14:45:33 GMT" pgfnum="12837" text="I've felt in my gut that the right place for freedom-loving people to invest effort is to oppose the most heinous of the plots to control government to favor the rich -- &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voter_suppression&quot;&gt;voter suppression&lt;/a&gt;. If you're going to march somewhere, why not call attention to the places which are most dangerous to democracy? "></outline>
					<outline created="Mon, 17 Sep 2012 14:46:57 GMT" pgfnum="12838" text="Also unlike most people who march I believe votes absolutely do matter. I believe in government of the people, by the people and for the people. True, we've given up most of our power. But what's the best way to get it back? By voting. I'm really serious about that. You can't take it back by getting arrested. You take it back by literally taking it back. And help other people whose votes are being obstructed to get around the obstructions. ">
						<outline created="Mon, 17 Sep 2012 14:58:56 GMT" pgfnum="12840" text="BTW, what taught me the value of the vote was doing jury duty about 15 years ago. The trial went all the way to verdict, so I had a chance to really think about how it worked and what it means. I had always glossed over this part of government. But here we were, 12 very random people, being trusted with a fellow citizen's liberty. We started out as raw cynics, but by the time we had to pass judgement we were true believers in the Constitution. It was an amazing transformation, in all of us, myself included. "></outline>
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					<outline created="Mon, 17 Sep 2012 14:48:27 GMT" pgfnum="12839" text="People died to undo the terrible methods of voter suppression in the past. Now we're sitting by and doing nothing while they put it all back in place. Something very wrong about that. "></outline>
					</outline>
				<outline created="Mon, 17 Sep 2012 13:42:30 GMT" name="techDiscussionOfCommentsFeed" pgfnum="12821" text="Tech discussion of comments feed" type="thread">
					<outline created="Mon, 17 Sep 2012 13:42:39 GMT" pgfnum="12822" text="Today I released a new feature for OPML Comments, which is explained with links, on this &lt;a href=&quot;http://scripting.com/stories/2012/09/17/opmlCommentsWeek2.html&quot;&gt;Scripting News post&lt;/a&gt;. "></outline>
					<outline created="Mon, 17 Sep 2012 13:42:59 GMT" pgfnum="12823" text="The core feature is of course the &lt;a href=&quot;http://static.scripting.com/pensacola/comments/rss.xml&quot;&gt;new RSS feed&lt;/a&gt; for comments."></outline>
					<outline created="Mon, 17 Sep 2012 13:43:08 GMT" pgfnum="12824" text="If you poke around the feeds, you may find some things that raise questions or possibilities. "></outline>
					<outline created="Mon, 17 Sep 2012 13:20:09 GMT" pgfnum="15794" text="1. The &lt;a href=&quot;http://static.scripting.com/pensacola/comments/rss.json&quot;&gt;JSON&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://static.scripting.com/pensacola/comments/rss.js&quot;&gt;JSONP&lt;/a&gt; versions."></outline>
					<outline created="Mon, 17 Sep 2012 13:20:15 GMT" pgfnum="15795" text="2. The &lt;a href=&quot;http://microblog.reallysimple.org/&quot;&gt;microblog&lt;/a&gt; namespace, which is used by the feed. "></outline>
					<outline created="Mon, 17 Sep 2012 13:20:35 GMT" pgfnum="15796" text="3. The &lt;a href=&quot;http://scripting.com/stories/2012/09/11/aRelativelyQuietRevolution.html&quot;&gt;roadmap post&lt;/a&gt; that shows where we're going."></outline>
					<outline created="Mon, 17 Sep 2012 13:20:55 GMT" pgfnum="15797" text="4. A screen shot of a &lt;a href=&quot;http://scripting.com/images/2012/09/17/permalink.gif&quot;&gt;permalink&lt;/a&gt; on comments, a necessary feature for the feed."></outline>
					<outline created="Mon, 17 Sep 2012 13:40:54 GMT" pgfnum="15799" text="5. &lt;a href=&quot;http://tabs.blorkmark.com/?panel=dave&quot;&gt;My personal river&lt;/a&gt;, which subscribes to the feed, so it's an easy place to find the latest comments on the threads site (along with news from quite a few other sources)."></outline>
					<outline created="Mon, 17 Sep 2012 13:50:22 GMT" pgfnum="15801" text="6. What's next? There's a full CMS behind the comments, with a templating system for designers. Lots of formats and protocols for developers. The only part that's visible is the writing tool. And that's as it should be, because the people we are doing this for are writers and readers. "></outline>
					<outline created="Mon, 17 Sep 2012 13:45:25 GMT" pgfnum="12825" text="Please post comments here, either in OPML or Disqus. "></outline>
					</outline>
				<outline created="Sun, 16 Sep 2012 20:18:33 GMT" name="newspapersAndBlogging" pgfnum="12821" text="Newspapers and blogging" type="thread">
					<outline created="Sun, 16 Sep 2012 20:18:41 GMT" pgfnum="12822" text="Henry Blodget has a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.businessinsider.com/newspaper-advertising-collapse-2012-9&quot;&gt;graph&lt;/a&gt; showing newspaper ad revenue over time."></outline>
					<outline created="Sun, 16 Sep 2012 20:18:57 GMT" pgfnum="12823" text="Jay Rosen observed that its fall started as the blogs rose."></outline>
					<outline created="Sun, 16 Sep 2012 20:19:16 GMT" pgfnum="12824" text="Proves that the right thing for the news industry to do back at the beginning of blogging was to fully embrace the change. Open the floodgates, and help the new amateurs create news for each other. "></outline>
					<outline created="Sun, 16 Sep 2012 20:19:58 GMT" pgfnum="12825" text="I wrote about this over and over, urged them to offer blogging to their communities. But change doesn't come easily esp when you've climbed the ladder. You don't want to hear the ladder doesn't matter anymore. "></outline>
					</outline>
				<outline created="Sun, 16 Sep 2012 02:44:25 GMT" name="toOwsPleaseUseTheWeb" pgfnum="12797" text="To OWS -- please use the web" type="thread">
					<outline created="Sun, 16 Sep 2012 02:44:51 GMT" pgfnum="12798" text="I wish I knew what OWS was doing now and why."></outline>
					<outline created="Sun, 16 Sep 2012 02:50:14 GMT" pgfnum="12805" text="If you don't have a website, here's a space to write. "></outline>
					<outline created="Sun, 16 Sep 2012 02:50:21 GMT" pgfnum="12806" text="Please let me know. I don't understand. Thanks."></outline>
					</outline>
				<outline created="Sat, 15 Sep 2012 19:01:31 GMT" name="whyGoogleIsOk" pgfnum="12785" text="Why Google is OK" type="thread">
					<outline created="Sat, 15 Sep 2012 19:01:37 GMT" pgfnum="12786" text="At a recent meeting we were talking about the reversal of fortunes for Twitter and Facebook and wondering why Google wasn't suffering as much. "></outline>
					<outline created="Sat, 15 Sep 2012 19:02:21 GMT" pgfnum="12787" text="It isn't about money because Twitter is shrinking in order to make more money. But the stuff that was exciting about Twitter, the way it acted as a conduit for other software, it was sort of a message operating system on a global scale, the exciting stuff is exactly what they're taking out to get to profitability."></outline>
					<outline created="Sat, 15 Sep 2012 19:03:18 GMT" pgfnum="12788" text="Facebook is wilting because the thing that was lifting them up was their stock, and that's not working for them anymore. In fact it's working against them."></outline>
					<outline created="Sat, 15 Sep 2012 19:03:40 GMT" pgfnum="12789" text="True, Google has multiple revenue flows, but I theorized that that isn't why they have a strong future. It's because they're open where Twitter is not. Think about it. I don't have to be vetted by anyone to be part of their search engine. No one says yay or nay, and there are no funny rules about stuff flowing in or out, or using their code to display search results. Google is fairly laissez-faire. All you have to do to be in their index is to put it on the web, and we all know the web is the platform with no platform vendor. Anyone can put stuff there."></outline>
					<outline created="Sat, 15 Sep 2012 19:05:10 GMT" pgfnum="12790" text="&lt;img src=&quot;http://scripting.com/images/2012/09/15/sorryWeHaveOurHeadUpOurButt.gif&quot; width=&quot;125&quot; height=&quot;93&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; style=&quot;float: right; padding-left: 15px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-top: 10px; padding-right: 15px;&quot; alt=&quot;A picture named sorryWeHaveOurHeadUpOurButt.gif&quot;&gt;I believe Twitter would have a much brighter future, Facebook too, if they trusted the web. If they let every bit of their service be replaced. That would force them to compete based on service, value and features. Now they get to be lazy and that's fine for a while. But the crazy chaos of the web will eventually do something exciting that you won't be able to match on Twitter. Had they been more trusting they would have guaranteed that whatever excitement comes along would automatically include them. "></outline>
					<outline created="Sat, 15 Sep 2012 19:06:41 GMT" pgfnum="12791" text="Google, on the other hand, has a better chance. It would be good for them if they were more open-minded about accepting formats and protocols from people who don't work for Google, but even with that inefficiency, they still have a pretty strong basis for continued growth."></outline>
					<outline created="Sat, 15 Sep 2012 19:07:32 GMT" pgfnum="12792" text="And of course Amazon is the smartest of them all. They're automatically part of everything because they do everything to support and enhance the protocols of the Internet. They are very respectful of the web and choice. I can deploy my apps on Amazon if I want, but if Rackspace gives me a better deal, Amazon won't fight me. Same with Rackspace of course. This is the way we like it. :-)"></outline>
					<outline created="Sat, 15 Sep 2012 19:09:09 GMT" pgfnum="12793" text="Who did Apple bet on in this field? Twitter. They'll never get networking right, imho. (I am a very happy Apple shareholder, btw.)"></outline>
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				<outline created="Sat, 15 Sep 2012 18:41:11 GMT" name="thisIsATest" pgfnum="12780" text="Whole post to Scripting feed" type="thread">
					<outline created="Sat, 15 Sep 2012 18:41:15 GMT" pgfnum="12781" text="&lt;a href=&quot;https://twitter.com/davidnin/status/247010855504457728&quot;&gt;David Nichols&lt;/a&gt; on Twitter said: &quot;Just realized 'Thread: whatever' posts don't contain the full text in Google Reader. I'm sure you have a reason, I don't get it!&quot;"></outline>
					<outline created="Sat, 15 Sep 2012 18:41:23 GMT" pgfnum="12782" text="He's right. The connection between threads and my Scripting News feed is a little temporary glue to connect the old world feed with the flow from the new world. When I did it, I did it quickly, because I was juggling a lot of stuff and didn't want anything to break. "></outline>
					<outline created="Sat, 15 Sep 2012 18:42:14 GMT" pgfnum="12783" text="I gave it a little thought and realized I could easily broaden the pipe to allow full thread posts to go into the Scripting News feed. "></outline>
					<outline created="Sat, 15 Sep 2012 18:42:37 GMT" pgfnum="12784" text="This post is a test, to see if that works. :-)"></outline>
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				<outline created="Sat, 15 Sep 2012 16:07:00 GMT" name="dearDiveintomark" pgfnum="12769" text="Dear @diveintomark" type="thread">
					<outline created="Sat, 15 Sep 2012 16:07:07 GMT" pgfnum="12770" text="Just before Mark Pilgrim committed Internet &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.google.com/search?q=Mark+Pilgrim+committed+Internet+suicide&quot;&gt;suicide&lt;/a&gt; he posted a tasty little flame about me on Twitter. "></outline>
					<outline created="Sat, 15 Sep 2012 16:16:11 GMT" pgfnum="12778" text="A spammer picked it up and every few days it &lt;a href=&quot;https://twitter.com/kgp_gov/status/246996072994590720&quot;&gt;shows&lt;/a&gt; up in my Replies tab on Twitter, a reminder of how much Mark loved me. Or whatever. "></outline>
					<outline created="Sat, 15 Sep 2012 16:16:22 GMT" pgfnum="12779" text="Here's what it says.">
						<outline created="Sat, 15 Sep 2012 16:08:10 GMT" pgfnum="12771" text="&lt;i&gt;RT@diveintomark: Just a reminder @davewiner ran http://weblogs.com  w/o a privacy policy for years &amp; sold all your ping data #blork&lt;/i&gt;"></outline>
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					<outline created="Sat, 15 Sep 2012 16:08:28 GMT" pgfnum="12772" text="It's a wonderful slam, something a Republican would be proud of -- because some of it is true -- but it's ridiculous at the same time. And it's packed with intrigue and innuendo."></outline>
					<outline created="Sat, 15 Sep 2012 16:09:08 GMT" pgfnum="12773" text="1. I did run it without a privacy policy. No one ever asked for one. And it was still pretty early for privacy policies (it started in 1999 I think). "></outline>
					<outline created="Sat, 15 Sep 2012 16:09:41 GMT" pgfnum="12774" text="2. A privacy policy would have read like this -- No privacy. The point of weblogs.com was to broadcast all the data to everyone that wanted it. It was a central ping server. For a while it was the only ping server for the entire blogosphere. If you wanted to let everyone know that you had updated all you had to do was send a message saying so to weblogs.com. We then would publish the ping as part of our XML feed. "></outline>
					<outline created="Sat, 15 Sep 2012 16:11:12 GMT" pgfnum="12775" text="3. I did sell weblogs.com to Verisign, but just the domain. No software, no data. The data, to the extent that it ever existed is in a remote folder on one of my hard drives. An Old stuff folder inside another Old Stuff folder, etc etc. All the data was public. In the end it was almost all spam. Not worth anything, that's why they didn't want it."></outline>
					<outline created="Sat, 15 Sep 2012 16:12:35 GMT" pgfnum="12776" text="Anyway, I thought it was worth a rebuttal on a lazy Saturday afternoon, after seeing this message about a thousand times since Mark first posted it. It'll probably be echoing around Twitter's network from now until the end of time. Long after we're all dead people will be wondering who Dave WIner was and why he sold all your ping data and what was #blork and who cares anyway cause they're all long gone."></outline>
					<outline created="Sat, 15 Sep 2012 16:13:57 GMT" pgfnum="12777" text="Happy trails! :-)"></outline>
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				<outline created="Sat, 15 Sep 2012 00:42:56 GMT" name="iDontThinkThisIsKansas" pgfnum="12765" text="I don't think this is Kansas" type="thread">
					<outline created="Sat, 15 Sep 2012 00:43:06 GMT" pgfnum="12766" text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.fancydress-supermarket.co.uk/dorothy-wizard-of-oz-p-77.html&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://scripting.com/images/2012/09/14/dorothy.gif&quot; width=&quot;115&quot; height=&quot;250&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; style=&quot;float: right; padding-left: 15px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-top: 10px; padding-right: 15px;&quot; alt=&quot;A picture named dorothy.gif&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;In the 1990s the very small web community, compared to today's web, had a lot of self-important ideas about the future of the medium. We were living in the future and prepared for it, or so we thought. In one way we believed that this would someday be the most important medium, or it already was, but on the other hand, not really. This was the kind of stuff you read about in science fiction, it didn't happen in real life. Well now it's happening. And it's freaky, and who knows where it leads. "></outline>
					<outline created="Sat, 15 Sep 2012 00:48:02 GMT" pgfnum="12769" text="None of us are prepared for the world we find ourselves in. Not even the net natives. "></outline>
					<outline created="Sat, 15 Sep 2012 00:44:24 GMT" pgfnum="12767" text="We don't know  what comes after attacks on our embassies, all over the world now, but it's serious and unprecedented and couldn't happen without the net. Communication used to be controlled by governments. It would take days or weeks for stories of a war-like event in one part of the world to reach another part. I know this because it wasn't much better in the United States. When I was in college in New Orleans, I'd go downtown every Tuesday to get a copy of the Sunday NY Times. That, and the evening news, was my access to world wide news. It wasn't that long ago."></outline>
					<outline created="Sat, 15 Sep 2012 00:46:33 GMT" pgfnum="12768" text="Now &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/09/14/us-protests-google-idUSBRE88D1MD20120914&quot;&gt;Google has told&lt;/a&gt; the US government that it won't take down the video that's theoretically causing all the trouble. That's weird but it's right. Google is a multi-national company. Sure its founders are American. But it can't be anymore beholden to the United States than to any other country. If they did, they would disappear pretty quickly because someone has a good reason for &lt;i&gt;every&lt;/i&gt; piece of content to be removed. Whether they obey an order from the US is another matter."></outline>
					<outline created="Sat, 15 Sep 2012 00:50:19 GMT" pgfnum="12770" text="Remember, this is all coming after WikiLeaks. And think of where Assange is now. It's only the respect the British govt has for the sovereignty of embassies that keeps him out of jail. And it's exactly that sovereignty that's under attack elsewhere. "></outline>
					<outline created="Sat, 15 Sep 2012 00:51:32 GMT" pgfnum="12771" text="And meanwhile in &lt;a href=&quot;http://content.usatoday.com/communities/onpolitics/post/2012/09/14/obama-birth-certificate-kansas-ballot/70000327/1#.UFPTOKRAZvk&quot;&gt;Kansas&lt;/a&gt; some people aren't embarrassed to say the President's name should be taken off the ballot because he's a black man, and they're white and they can't handle it. I know they'll say it's not that, but they're lying. "></outline>
					<outline created="Sat, 15 Sep 2012 01:06:56 GMT" pgfnum="12772" text="All this is happening at the same time. "></outline>
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				<outline created="Fri, 14 Sep 2012 15:34:03 GMT" name="anIdeaForReportersConductingLiveInterviewsWithLiars" pgfnum="12752" text="An idea for reporters conducting live interviews" type="thread">
					<outline created="Fri, 14 Sep 2012 15:34:15 GMT" pgfnum="12753" text="Just heard part of an &lt;a href=&quot;http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/09/full-transcript-george-stephanopoulos-and-mitt-romney/&quot;&gt;interview&lt;/a&gt; between George Stephanopoulos and Mitt Romney."></outline>
					<outline created="Fri, 14 Sep 2012 15:41:45 GMT" pgfnum="12761" text="It went something like this."></outline>
					<outline created="Fri, 14 Sep 2012 15:34:48 GMT" pgfnum="12754" text="George: You going to take back what you said?"></outline>
					<outline created="Fri, 14 Sep 2012 15:35:05 GMT" pgfnum="12755" text="Mitt: No, basically the White House agreed with what I said."></outline>
					<outline created="Fri, 14 Sep 2012 15:35:15 GMT" pgfnum="12756" text="George: They agreed that the President sympathizes with the people who attacked the embassy?"></outline>
					<outline created="Fri, 14 Sep 2012 15:35:32 GMT" pgfnum="12757" text="Mitt: Basically the White House agreed with what I said (repeating his previous statement)."></outline>
					<outline created="Fri, 14 Sep 2012 15:35:56 GMT" pgfnum="12758" text="George: You refuse to answer a direct question."></outline>
					<outline created="Fri, 14 Sep 2012 15:36:07 GMT" pgfnum="12759" text="Now, that's what I thought I heard Stephanopoulos say, but he actually went on from there. "></outline>
					<outline created="Fri, 14 Sep 2012 15:36:26 GMT" pgfnum="12760" text="I propose that when you're interviewing someone who doesn't answer a question, that you say exactly those words. &quot;You refuse to answer a direct question.&quot; It's like a receipt. Play back for them how you're interpreting. You still get to maintain your lack of a viewpoint. You're just saying what's obvious to everyone watching the interview. And it puts the burden on the person being interviewed. He could smile through it, and that would become the clip you use to summarize the interview. Or you might actually get a response to the question you asked."></outline>
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				<outline created="Fri, 14 Sep 2012 13:58:44 GMT" name="classWarfare" pgfnum="12745" text="A question about class warfare" type="thread">
					<outline created="Fri, 14 Sep 2012 13:58:48 GMT" pgfnum="12746" text="Was just thinking about the Republican tactic of liberal use of the concept of &lt;i&gt;class warfare.&lt;/i&gt; "></outline>
					<outline created="Fri, 14 Sep 2012 14:02:23 GMT" pgfnum="12747" text="If you say taxes should be increased for the richest people, that's class warfare. "></outline>
					<outline created="Fri, 14 Sep 2012 14:02:30 GMT" pgfnum="12748" text="If so, isn't it also class warfare when rich people want to cut health care and retirement benefits for middle class people? Why aren't both ideas equally off-limits? "></outline>
					<outline created="Fri, 14 Sep 2012 14:02:43 GMT" pgfnum="12749" text="No tax increases for rich folk in return for no cuts in benefits for middle class people. Great. Now what? :-)"></outline>
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				<outline created="Fri, 14 Sep 2012 12:28:35 GMT" name="youtubeInTheDevelopingWorld" pgfnum="12736" text="YouTube in the developing world" type="thread">
					<outline created="Fri, 14 Sep 2012 12:28:50 GMT" pgfnum="12737" text="Pretty amazing that YouTube is playing such a central role in the battles in North Africa and the Middle East. And of course Twitter. A few notes on what's happening."></outline>
					<outline created="Fri, 14 Sep 2012 12:29:39 GMT" pgfnum="12738" text="1. The rioters in Egypt and Yemen say they're incensed by the video. I haven't seen it myself and I don't need or want to. Much of what's there is crap and highly insulting to someone. I'm sure some of the rioters are sincere. I'm equally sure some of the rioters are no more sincere that  the American assholes who look for excuses to get &quot;angry.&quot; They're not really angry. They're just using some pretense to try to violently and unfairly shore up their own power, in a highly undemocratic fashion."></outline>
					<outline created="Fri, 14 Sep 2012 12:31:14 GMT" pgfnum="12739" text="&lt;img src=&quot;http://scripting.com/images/2012/09/14/uncleSam.gif&quot; width=&quot;125&quot; height=&quot;177&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; style=&quot;float: right; padding-left: 25px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-top: 10px; padding-right: 15px;&quot; alt=&quot;A picture named uncleSam.gif&quot;&gt;2. Clearly some of the people on the &quot;Arab street&quot; -- whatever that is -- are being manipulated. They need to understand that not only do we have free speech in the US, there's no guarantee that any video on YouTube actually came from the US. It could have come from the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt. If not this time, next time. Now that they see how powerful YouTube can be at stirring up mobs, it will be used again and again."></outline>
					<outline created="Fri, 14 Sep 2012 12:32:41 GMT" pgfnum="12740" text="3. The solution is not to censor YouTube, the solution is for the citizens of the new democracies in the Middle East to get clued-in, fast -- to how they're being used. Use your own free speech to expose the assholes. &lt;i&gt;Your&lt;/i&gt; assholes, not ours."></outline>
					<outline created="Fri, 14 Sep 2012 12:44:46 GMT" pgfnum="12742" text="4. We should get rid of any premise in press reports that the rioters are upset about the film. The only thing we know is that they are attacking the US embassies. Are they really so stupid as to believe that the US produced the film? Shouldn't the press check that out before reporting the premise as fact. Could this possibly be some great drama whose purpose is to impose censorship on YouTube? It seems the press has a small conflict of interest here."></outline>
					<outline created="Fri, 14 Sep 2012 12:46:38 GMT" pgfnum="12743" text="5. This is what I mean about tech and politics being inseparable. That the political and tech blogospheres are divided makes the whole thing much weaker. There aren't any divisions any more."></outline>
					<outline created="Fri, 14 Sep 2012 12:33:13 GMT" pgfnum="12741" text="6. On a similar topic, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/09/14/net-us-twitter-occupy-idUSBRE88D01S20120914?feedName=technologyNews&amp;feedType=RSS&quot;&gt;Twitter decided&lt;/a&gt; to turn over the tweets of an OWS protestor. It's about time. Either tweets are public or they are not. Twitter needs to answer that question, very clearly. I thought they were public. Just like blog posts. If they're not, Twitter needs to clear this up right now. By not turning over the archive when asked for it, what pretense did they offer? I honestly don't know. Some sense of privacy? Tweets are the opposite of private."></outline>
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				<outline created="Thu, 13 Sep 2012 15:42:46 GMT" name="bloggingInTransition" pgfnum="12727" text="Blogging in transition" type="thread">
					<outline created="Thu, 13 Sep 2012 15:43:22 GMT" pgfnum="12728" text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matryoshka_doll&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://scripting.com/images/2012/09/13/dolls.gif&quot; width=&quot;259&quot; height=&quot;195&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; style=&quot;float: right; padding-left: 15px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-top: 10px; padding-right: 15px;&quot; alt=&quot;A picture named dolls.gif&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;A little over a week ago I wrote a piece called &lt;a href=&quot;http://threads2.scripting.com/2012/september/scriptingcomInTransition&quot;&gt;scripting.com in transition&lt;/a&gt;. I was getting ready to show people &lt;a href=&quot;http://threads2.scripting.com/2012/september/aTestOfOutlineComments&quot;&gt;OPML Comments&lt;/a&gt;, and wanted to give you all a heads up. Now you've seen the next step. I've opened up a little window into the CMS running behind the threads site, called the worldoutline, to show you a bit of what it can do. "></outline>
					<outline created="Thu, 13 Sep 2012 15:44:43 GMT" pgfnum="12729" text="Over the last couple of years I did a transition of my blog. First, I rewrote my CMS which had evolved in a disorderly research-driven fashion over several years. That was called Scripting2. Then I started a new CMS called the worldoutline, which was actually begun with the seeds of a way of organizing web content that goes back to Clay Basket in the mid-90s. But this time I achieved the goal I had been trying to reach the previous iterations."></outline>
					<outline created="Thu, 13 Sep 2012 15:47:25 GMT" pgfnum="12730" text="My goal was to create a way of writing, designing and programming for networks that was unified. Where a new domain is just a matter of putting a label on a node saying &quot;Start something new here, and this is its name.&quot; Its analogous to a page-break in a word processor. On the net the equiv of a page-break is a domain-break."></outline>
					<outline created="Thu, 13 Sep 2012 15:48:15 GMT" pgfnum="12731" text="Things that used to represent large conceptual changes, like the difference between content and its rendering, are shrunken so you just have to save a document to effect large change on the web. Why not? We already have tools like this for printing and page layout. We're 15 years into the web now. We all create lots of sites, so many that they're hard to manage. We live at the edge of our capacity to manage it. But our tools, the file system and IDEs have only made incremental improvements in the last couple of generations. We're not using the great new capacity of our machines very well. "></outline>
					<outline created="Thu, 13 Sep 2012 15:50:19 GMT" pgfnum="12732" text="So I don't think most people have an expectation for what comes next. That's why this is going to be so much fun. I think you will be surprised at what you will be able to do. :-)"></outline>
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				<outline created="Wed, 12 Sep 2012 13:52:47 GMT" name="simple" pgfnum="12662" text="A message to Republicans: Enough" type="thread">
					<outline created="Wed, 12 Sep 2012 13:52:51 GMT" pgfnum="12663" text="The problem with what the Repubs did last night is that we hadn't even begun to process the events. It was six hours before we even knew a US ambassador had been killed. The Repubs are trying to take control of the story. We, the press and the informed electorate -- Republican, Democrat and independent, need to tell the Republican leadership, in unambiguous terms that their behavior, as Americans, is unacceptable. "></outline>
					<outline created="Wed, 12 Sep 2012 14:00:03 GMT" pgfnum="12665" text="Yes, these events are inevitably political. But our first priority has to be the safety of Americans. Maybe our &lt;i&gt;fiftieth&lt;/i&gt; priority is wanting to know what Mitt Romney thinks about it."></outline>
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				<outline created="Tue, 11 Sep 2012 16:57:02 GMT" name="doYouSeeAGreenButtonOnThisPage" pgfnum="12636" text="Do you see a green button on this page?" type="thread">
					<outline created="Tue, 11 Sep 2012 17:01:41 GMT" pgfnum="12639" text="1. You have to be running the &lt;a href=&quot;http://threads2.scripting.com/2012/september/aTestOfOutlineComments&quot;&gt;OPML Editor&lt;/a&gt; to see the button. "></outline>
					<outline created="Tue, 11 Sep 2012 16:57:09 GMT" pgfnum="12637" text="2. We've had some reports of people using Chrome on Windows 7 who don't see the green button. If you're a geek, can you help us figure out why? I'm a Chrome user on the Mac, and I see it fine, and there haven't been reports of problems with other browsers. Help much appreciated. "></outline>
					<outline created="Tue, 11 Sep 2012 16:58:05 GMT" pgfnum="12638" text="3. BTW, this is what the button is supposed to &lt;a href=&quot;http://scripting.com/images/2012/09/11/greenButton.gif&quot;&gt;look like&lt;/a&gt; in case you can't see it. "></outline>
					<outline created="Tue, 11 Sep 2012 17:08:53 GMT" pgfnum="12640" text="4. The button is generated by a &lt;a href=&quot;http://127.0.0.1:5337/opmlEditor/comments/button&quot;&gt;page&lt;/a&gt; on a server on the user's machine. "></outline>
					<outline created="Tue, 11 Sep 2012 17:30:04 GMT" pgfnum="12641" text="Update: Problem &lt;a href=&quot;http://threads2.scripting.com/2012/september/doYouSeeAGreenButtonOnThisPage#comment-646852904&quot;&gt;solved&lt;/a&gt;! :-)"></outline>
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				<outline created="Tue, 11 Sep 2012 12:18:53 GMT" name="twittingWithGreenwald" pgfnum="12584" text="Witting with Greenwald" type="thread">
					<outline created="Tue, 11 Sep 2012 12:26:51 GMT" pgfnum="12590" text="This post came about from a brief &lt;a href=&quot;https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/245493500613885952&quot;&gt;twitter exchange&lt;/a&gt; with Glenn Greenwald."></outline>
					<outline created="Tue, 11 Sep 2012 12:39:30 GMT" pgfnum="12602" text="Glenn thanks for listening. Here are some simple ideas. (And if you just want the conclusion skip to the end.)"></outline>
					<outline created="Tue, 11 Sep 2012 12:39:39 GMT" pgfnum="12603" text="1. Discourse on the net is much like discourse was during the print age. I can write about tech stuff, you can write about political stuff, neither of us gets access to the other's community if you should happen to have something to say to the tech world or I should have something to say political."></outline>
					<outline created="Tue, 11 Sep 2012 12:40:38 GMT" pgfnum="12605" text="2. This is working against us because today almost everything that is political is tech, and vice versa. We've got some smart people writing publicly who can put the pieces together, but we haven't yet actually put the pieces together."></outline>
					<outline created="Tue, 11 Sep 2012 12:41:18 GMT" pgfnum="12606" text="3. You talk about Arab Spring type demos. I say that won't work in the US and I don't think it worked in Egypt. "></outline>
					<outline created="Tue, 11 Sep 2012 12:41:44 GMT" pgfnum="12607" text="4. What works here, and I know this sounds idealistic in a Mr Smith Goes to Washington way, is voter turnout. "></outline>
					<outline created="Tue, 11 Sep 2012 12:42:04 GMT" pgfnum="12608" text="5. Kickstarter. Look what happened there. Why? Because people crave power. They may only be able to put down $10 or $100 but it magically mulitplies quickly to become $1 million. "></outline>
					<outline created="Tue, 11 Sep 2012 12:42:50 GMT" pgfnum="12609" text="6. People are desperate to be involved. To be effective. To do something with their lives that's good. We are missing meaning. "></outline>
					<outline created="Tue, 11 Sep 2012 12:43:18 GMT" pgfnum="12610" text="7. We are blessed with a democratic system that is actually a lot like Kickstarter. If we were to use it, that would change things right off. If voter turnout increased by just 10 percent it would be seen as a revolution in Washington. It would be felt. "></outline>
					<outline created="Tue, 11 Sep 2012 12:44:11 GMT" pgfnum="12611" text="8. I believe it's possible to transform Obama, even just a little. I think he can be manipulated. If 10 percent more people turned out than were expected, it would shake him up. "></outline>
					<outline created="Tue, 11 Sep 2012 12:44:49 GMT" pgfnum="12612" text="9. If somehow we could attach to that a message that the filibusters had to stop, that when we elect a majority to Congress we expect them to have the power to legislate, and that there will be a memory of any politician who threatened that. (Think about the power the Tea Party has had with a small minority in just a few states.)"></outline>
					<outline created="Tue, 11 Sep 2012 12:45:55 GMT" pgfnum="12613" text="10. I want to do more than vote and give money. Right now, other than knock on doors, which I did in 2008 and when I was a teen, that's about all that I can do. But I desperatelly want to do more. I thinkn there are a lot of other people like that."></outline>
					<outline created="Tue, 11 Sep 2012 12:46:45 GMT" pgfnum="12614" text="11. I don't care what pundits think. "></outline>
					<outline created="Tue, 11 Sep 2012 12:49:26 GMT" pgfnum="12616" text="12. I believe in demonstrations, but not meaningless ones. Showing up to vote is the best tool we have right now. I can't believe we're not doing more with it."></outline>
					<outline created="Tue, 11 Sep 2012 12:55:35 GMT" pgfnum="12618" text="Anyway, short term there isn't much we can do. I know that. The change that I want has to be something I create myself. I want to break down the walls that say only Josh Marshall, you and Ezra Klein (etc) can write about politics. And that the people who &lt;i&gt;use&lt;/i&gt; the tech have the most important opinions, so I want to hear more vision about where this stuff should go from smart people like yourself. We're creating a new system for political discourse now. The tools are still early. We can make them much better. But first we have to create the expectation that they will get better, and the places we're looking for change are the places it can't and won't come from. The VCs will never give you the power that I will. The President will never bring about change on his own. But you and I and others like us can. "></outline>
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				<outline created="Mon, 10 Sep 2012 21:10:31 GMT" name="deadPeopleOnVotingRolls" pgfnum="12578" text="Dead people on voting rolls" type="thread">
					<outline created="Mon, 10 Sep 2012 21:10:41 GMT" pgfnum="12579" text="I love how the Repubs are so alarmed that there are thousands of &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.google.com/search?q=dead+people+on+voting+rolls&quot;&gt;dead people&lt;/a&gt; on the voter rolls. OMG. We have to purge them. It's a sign of fraud! This is terrible. Well..."></outline>
					<outline created="Mon, 10 Sep 2012 21:11:20 GMT" pgfnum="12580" text="There are also thousands of dead people on Facebook and thousands of dead people with driver's licenses. Every university has thousands of dead people in their alumni databases. Why? Because voters die. And so do Facebook users, and drivers, and alumni. "></outline>
					<outline created="Mon, 10 Sep 2012 21:12:22 GMT" pgfnum="12581" text="My father died three years ago, and while I miss him still, even more today than I did right after he died, I still haven't called the State of New York to say &quot;You need to take my father off the voter roll.&quot; For all I know if he showed up at the right voting place on November 7 they would let him vote. But I promise you he's not showing up anywhere. He's a former voter even though he may still be on the voter rolls."></outline>
					<outline created="Mon, 10 Sep 2012 21:13:44 GMT" pgfnum="12582" text="You have to check what the Repubs say very carefully, because while it may be true, what they say might also be designed to lead you to believe something else, something outrageous or fraudulent. That's not happening."></outline>
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				<outline created="Mon, 10 Sep 2012 13:42:58 GMT" name="aTestOfOutlineComments" pgfnum="12540" text="A test of outline comments" type="thread">
					<outline created="Mon, 10 Sep 2012 13:43:06 GMT" pgfnum="12541" text="Welcome to a test of some new software I've been developing. This is a test you can participate in if you have the OPML Editor running on your Mac or Windows PC."></outline>
					<outline created="Sat, 10 Mar 2012 16:28:02 GMT" pgfnum="6228" text="&lt;rules <rules><rule level="0" to="2"><list-space>10px;</list-space></rule><rule level="1" to="1"><font-weight>bold</font-weight><outline-space-before>10px;</outline-space-before></rule><rule level="2" to="2"><outline-indent>0</outline-indent></rule><rule level="3" to="infinity"><outline-indent>30px</outline-indent></rule></rules>&gt;"></outline>
					<outline created="Mon, 10 Sep 2012 13:43:21 GMT" pgfnum="12542" text="Howto">
						<outline created="Mon, 10 Sep 2012 13:43:58 GMT" pgfnum="12543" text="1. If necessary, &lt;a href=&quot;http://home.opml.org/&quot;&gt;download&lt;/a&gt; and install the OPML Editor application."></outline>
						<outline created="Mon, 10 Sep 2012 13:44:22 GMT" pgfnum="12544" text="2. Fully update it by choosing &lt;i&gt;Update opml.root&lt;/i&gt; from the File menu."></outline>
						<outline created="Mon, 10 Sep 2012 13:44:36 GMT" pgfnum="12545" text="3. Choose the &lt;i&gt;Your name&lt;/i&gt; command from the Misc menu and enter your name. This will be used to identify your notes in the comments box."></outline>
						<outline created="Tue, 11 Sep 2012 17:31:32 GMT" pgfnum="12642" text="4. Important: Reload this web page. You should now see a green OPML &lt;a href=&quot;http://scripting.com/images/2012/09/10/greenOpmlButton.gif&quot;&gt;button&lt;/a&gt; near the bottom. Click the button."></outline>
						<outline created="Mon, 10 Sep 2012 13:45:40 GMT" pgfnum="12547" text="5. The OPML Editor comes to the front and a window opens with a place for you to enter some comments. Please do so. When you're ready, click the Save button. "></outline>
						<outline created="Mon, 10 Sep 2012 13:47:28 GMT" pgfnum="12548" text="6. Come back to this page and reload. You should see your comments below. You can go back to the OPML Editor and change your comments and Save  as many times as you like. "></outline>
						<outline created="Mon, 10 Sep 2012 13:47:59 GMT" pgfnum="12549" text="It's a social experiment. Let's see what you all do with this. I have some ideas, of course, but let's see how it goes."></outline>
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					<outline created="Mon, 10 Sep 2012 13:49:14 GMT" pgfnum="12551" text="Problems? ">
						<outline created="Mon, 10 Sep 2012 13:49:16 GMT" pgfnum="12552" text="If there are problems, you can use the Disqus comment box below to explain. "></outline>
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				<outline created="Sat, 08 Sep 2012 16:38:29 GMT" name="toTechcrunchHackathoners" pgfnum="12499" text="To TechCrunch hackathoners" type="thread">
					<outline created="Sat, 08 Sep 2012 16:38:38 GMT" pgfnum="12500" text="I hear today is the TechCrunch &lt;a href=&quot;http://techcrunch.com/2012/09/07/why-you-should-come-to-the-disrupt-sf-hackathon/&quot;&gt;hackathon&lt;/a&gt;!"></outline>
					<outline created="Sat, 08 Sep 2012 16:39:00 GMT" pgfnum="12501" text="If you're looking for something to do, how about picking off one of the ideas on the roadmap for the &lt;a href=&quot;http://scripting.com/stories/2012/07/25/anOpenTwitterlikeEcosystem.html&quot;&gt;open Twitter-like ecosystem&lt;/a&gt;. "></outline>
					<outline created="Sat, 08 Sep 2012 16:40:05 GMT" pgfnum="12502" text="You could do a nice linkblogging tool. Or a beautiful rendering of &lt;a href=&quot;http://riverjs.org/&quot;&gt;river.js&lt;/a&gt; in the browser of your choice (or hopefully all of them)."></outline>
					<outline created="Sat, 08 Sep 2012 16:40:34 GMT" pgfnum="12503" text="How about a nice way to manage susbscription lists in a way that can be shared with all applications. One place where users can subscribe or unsubscribe. "></outline>
					<outline created="Sat, 08 Sep 2012 16:41:04 GMT" pgfnum="12504" text="Remember to give your users' data to other apps, to be part of an ecosystem. Closed silos are for the big guys. It's how we &lt;a href=&quot;http://techcrunch.com/events/disrupt-sf-2012/event-info/&quot;&gt;disrupt&lt;/a&gt; them, by working together. :-)"></outline>
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				<outline created="Fri, 07 Sep 2012 13:57:46 GMT" name="appnetNumbers" pgfnum="12453" text="app.net's impressive start" type="thread">
					<outline text="&lt;rules&gt;">
						<outline created="Fri, 10 Feb 2012 19:26:27 GMT" pgfnum="12669" text="&lt;rule&gt;">
							<outline created="Sat, 04 Feb 2012 19:09:43 GMT" pgfnum="4926" text="&lt;no-icons&gt;false&lt;/no-icons&gt;"></outline>
							<outline created="Fri, 10 Feb 2012 19:26:30 GMT" pgfnum="12670" text="&lt;/rule&gt;"></outline>
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						<outline text="&lt;/rules&gt;"></outline>
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					<outline created="Fri, 07 Sep 2012 13:57:52 GMT" pgfnum="12454" text="The Verge has an &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.theverge.com/2012/9/7/3300019/app-net-engagement-figures&quot;&gt;interesting story&lt;/a&gt; with an awful headline, so rather than point directly to it, I wanted to get a chance to frame it in a way that I think is fair to app.net."></outline>
					<outline created="Fri, 07 Sep 2012 13:58:20 GMT" pgfnum="12455" text="They say that only 250 users account for over half the messages posted on the new system. There are over 20K users, each of whom paid $50 to use the system."></outline>
					<outline created="Fri, 07 Sep 2012 13:58:55 GMT" pgfnum="12456" text="They say this means that app.net is off to a &quot;slow start&quot; but I wonder how that compares to Twitter. I have never seen any good numbers, but I think there are really several classes of Twitter users, I have a sense of how they break out in numbers."></outline>
					<outline created="Fri, 07 Sep 2012 13:59:29 GMT" pgfnum="12458" text="1. &lt;b&gt;Celebrities&lt;/b&gt;, whose grunts and snorts are fascinating to their fans. They don't really provide information, just the tiniest glimpses into the reality of their lives, which are suprisingly like those of normal people."></outline>
					<outline created="Fri, 07 Sep 2012 14:00:22 GMT" pgfnum="12459" text="2. &lt;b&gt;Link machines&lt;/b&gt;, like myself -- people who spend a lot of time online reading stuff, and share links with followers. We post a lot more than the people in category #1. We're not very famous and we don't share a lot of our lives. The product is a linkflow. Another way of looking at it, we use Twitter the way others use del.icio.us (perhaps why the YouTube guys bought it, to turn it into the interesting part of Twitter, imho)."></outline>
					<outline created="Fri, 07 Sep 2012 14:01:22 GMT" pgfnum="12460" text="3. &lt;b&gt;Active readers&lt;/b&gt; who use Twitter as if it were a river-of-news aggregator, which of course it is. Yesterday I &lt;a href=&quot;http://threads2.scripting.com/2012/september/myLifeOutsideTwitter&quot;&gt;posted&lt;/a&gt; a screen shot that illustrates that sometimes Twitter is providing almost exactly the same flow as the &lt;a href=&quot;http://tabs.blorkmark.com/?panel=dave&quot;&gt;Media Hackers&lt;/a&gt; tabbed river.">
						<outline created="Thu, 06 Sep 2012 15:32:34 GMT" pgfnum="12430" text="&lt;img src=&quot;http://scripting.com/images/2012/09/06/greattweets.gif&quot; width=&quot;537&quot; height=&quot;554&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; alt=&quot;A picture named greattweets.gif&quot;&gt;"></outline>
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					<outline created="Fri, 07 Sep 2012 14:03:16 GMT" pgfnum="12461" text="4. &lt;b&gt;Darknet users&lt;/b&gt;. I have no idea who they are or what they do or if they are even real people. A huge portion of the numbers on Twitter. Who they are is totally unknown. Like the interior of Alaska or Siberia. "></outline>
					<outline created="Fri, 07 Sep 2012 14:04:55 GMT" pgfnum="12462" text="Unless we know how things break down for Twitter how can we judge what's happening on app.net. For one, I am impressed. They have managed to get uptake, with a $50 pricetag, for an offering that is actually less functional than Twitter in many ways, from a technical standpoint. And it's a very small community relative to Twitter. Even so, they have managed to get a lot of people to part with a significant amount of money. And they're smart to go into a quiet period for a while to consolidate, and presumably get some new software ready, and perhaps some content deals."></outline>
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				<outline created="Thu, 06 Sep 2012 20:23:30 GMT" name="feedFormatNumbers" pgfnum="12436" text="Breakdown of feed formats" type="thread">
					<outline created="Thu, 06 Sep 2012 20:23:46 GMT" pgfnum="12437" text="A question came yesterday up on the &lt;a href=&quot;https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!forum/river-of-news&quot;&gt;river-of-news list&lt;/a&gt; -- a list of developers who are creating tools and designs for rivers. "></outline>
					<outline created="Thu, 06 Sep 2012 20:31:05 GMT" pgfnum="12439" text="&lt;a href=&quot;https://groups.google.com/d/msg/river-of-news/tts9bcZLrk0/IbUSnw6RkXsJ&quot;&gt;Dody Gunawinata&lt;/a&gt;, is doing an aggregator and wanted to know if he should support RSS 1.0 format. I said that River2 does, but I didn't know the breakdown of different feed formats. "></outline>
					<outline created="Thu, 06 Sep 2012 20:31:20 GMT" pgfnum="12441" text="So I wrote a script that recorded, when a feed updates, whether it's RSS or Atom, and if it's RSS, which version it is. Only feeds that updated in the 24 hour period would be counted, and each feed would only count once. The idea was to count feeds that were actually updating. Dormant feeds really don't matter for Dody's question. "></outline>
					<outline created="Thu, 06 Sep 2012 23:00:29 GMT" pgfnum="12443" text="I ran the script overnight on the server that maintains &lt;a href=&quot;http://tabs.mediahackers.org/?panel=dave&quot;&gt;my rivers&lt;/a&gt;. So this is a very unscientific test. "></outline>
					<outline created="Thu, 06 Sep 2012 20:31:34 GMT" pgfnum="12442" text="The numbers: RSS 2.0 -- 338 feeds. Atom -- 36. RSS 1.0, 0.92 and 0.91 had 2 each."></outline>
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				<outline created="Thu, 06 Sep 2012 15:29:42 GMT" name="myLifeOutsideTwitter" pgfnum="12426" text="Life outside Twitter" type="thread">
					<outline text="&lt;rules&gt;">
						<outline created="Fri, 10 Feb 2012 19:26:27 GMT" pgfnum="12669" text="&lt;rule&gt;">
							<outline created="Sat, 04 Feb 2012 19:09:43 GMT" pgfnum="4926" text="&lt;no-icons&gt;false&lt;/no-icons&gt;"></outline>
							<outline created="Fri, 10 Feb 2012 19:26:30 GMT" pgfnum="12670" text="&lt;/rule&gt;"></outline>
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						<outline text="&lt;/rules&gt;"></outline>
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					<outline created="Thu, 06 Sep 2012 15:29:47 GMT" pgfnum="12427" text="I've made an investment over the last year, building up the &lt;a href=&quot;http://tabs.mediahackers.org/&quot;&gt;rivers I use&lt;/a&gt;, both from a software and content standpoint. I've realized more and more that's how I was using Twitter. To be in the loops of writers, both professional and bloggers, in a systematic way. I wanted to see how rich I could make it."></outline>
					<outline created="Thu, 06 Sep 2012 15:31:00 GMT" pgfnum="12428" text="Turns out it's pretty good. I still use Twitter, and for now that's okay. "></outline>
					<outline collapse="true" created="Thu, 06 Sep 2012 15:42:07 GMT" pgfnum="12433" text="A few minutes ago there were five posts on Twitter, in a row, that I would love to have outside of Twitter too. Expand this headline to see the screen shot.">
						<outline created="Thu, 06 Sep 2012 15:32:34 GMT" pgfnum="12430" text="&lt;img src=&quot;http://scripting.com/images/2012/09/06/greattweets.gif&quot; width=&quot;537&quot; height=&quot;554&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; alt=&quot;A picture named greattweets.gif&quot;&gt;"></outline>
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					<outline created="Thu, 06 Sep 2012 15:32:38 GMT" pgfnum="12431" text="Except for Newyorkist announcing that he is making his bed, each of the tweets is from people I feel I know well through their online personnas, and each is pointing to something worth reading. "></outline>
					<outline created="Thu, 06 Sep 2012 15:50:09 GMT" pgfnum="12435" text="Bora Zivkovic is a scientist blogger from North Carolina. Philip Greenspun is a genius entrepreneur, systems guy, developer, pilot, libertarian. Highly opinionated, great writer. Jay Rosen is of course always on-topic, a thinker and linker and media observer. Miguel de Icaza is a great community leader, programmer, and is politically outspoken (like me and Greenspun) and Chris Dixon is a NYC-based entrepreneur, VC and also a wise guy. :-)"></outline>
					<outline created="Thu, 06 Sep 2012 15:34:47 GMT" pgfnum="12432" text="I would subscribe to any of these guys in my rivers, and in fact I do. Most of the content they're pointing to exists on the web, outside of Twitter, but I'm not subscribing to all of it. I want people like Chris and Miguel to have a linkblog, so that their links live outside Twitter as well as their writing. "></outline>
					<outline created="Thu, 06 Sep 2012 15:46:46 GMT" pgfnum="12434" text="These are all super smart people and I think they will immediately understand why it's good to have feet on both the &lt;a href=&quot;http://scripting.com/stories/2012/07/31/oneFootOnThePlatform.html&quot;&gt;platform&lt;/a&gt; and the train, at the same time. "></outline>
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				<outline created="Wed, 05 Sep 2012 21:18:25 GMT" name="aboutTwittersChanges" pgfnum="12415" text="About Twitter's changes" type="thread">
					<outline created="Wed, 05 Sep 2012 21:18:33 GMT" pgfnum="12416" text="There's nothing surprising in the changes Twitter &lt;a href=&quot;https://dev.twitter.com/docs/api/1.1/overview#JSON_support_only&quot;&gt;announced&lt;/a&gt; today. "></outline>
					<outline created="Wed, 05 Sep 2012 21:24:42 GMT" pgfnum="12420" text="&lt;img src=&quot;http://scripting.com/images/2012/09/05/silo.gif&quot; width=&quot;125&quot; height=&quot;152&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; style=&quot;float: right; padding-left: 15px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-top: 10px; padding-right: 15px;&quot; alt=&quot;A picture named silo.gif&quot;&gt;They telegraphed clearly, a long time ago that they were phasing out their earlier developer program. Earlier this year Twitter CEO &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.theverge.com/2012/7/23/3180005/twitter-ceo-dick-costolo-walled-garden&quot;&gt;Dick Costolo said&lt;/a&gt; they wanted more content flowing into Twitter and less flowing out of it. So of course that meant that they would cut back on  API access. If anyone had been building on these resources, they now face a setback, but it was one they could have seen coming. "></outline>
					<outline created="Wed, 05 Sep 2012 21:20:20 GMT" pgfnum="12417" text="Twitter could have been something very different from what it's becoming. That's neither good nor bad. Every business has an opportunity to define itself, by what they do as well as by what they &lt;i&gt;don't&lt;/i&gt; do. Twitter has had very strong positions like the 140-character limit and the decision to put links in the text that users type. These have become such fixtures that we hardly notice them. But different decisions could have been made, and a different environment would have resulted."></outline>
					<outline created="Wed, 05 Sep 2012 21:21:47 GMT" pgfnum="12418" text="When Twitter pulls back from features, they create room for new potentially valuable networked products and services that are radically different from Twitter, with different tradeoffs. I think we're at the point in the evolution of the net where there will be a lot of experimentation, in part fueled by the new space Twitter is opening up for competition. It's good for innovation. I think we may well be getting unstuck in some very big areas, very soon, as a result of the changing developer landscape."></outline>
					<outline created="Wed, 05 Sep 2012 21:29:27 GMT" pgfnum="12422" text="See &lt;a href=&quot;http://tabs.mediahackers.org/&quot;&gt;Media Hackers&lt;/a&gt; for an idea of what can be done with news, entirely outside of Twitter, based on flows in RSS, Atom, XML and JSON, all of which are strong open formats with huge content flow from professional news organizations, bloggers, universities, schools of all sizes, scientific institutions, corporations, non-profits, media networks and government agencies. "></outline>
					<outline created="Wed, 05 Sep 2012 21:31:49 GMT" pgfnum="12423" text="It's important to note that none of this is in any way subject to Twitter's terms. None of these feeds or JSON rivers will stop flowing because Twitter is placing limits on its own &lt;a href=&quot;http://scripting.com/stories/2007/04/28/twitterAsCoralReef.html&quot;&gt;ecosystem&lt;/a&gt;."></outline>
					<outline created="Wed, 05 Sep 2012 21:35:06 GMT" pgfnum="12424" text="There are new projects from many developers that look promising. I believe there will be strong reasons the new projects will want to share user content more fluidly as a way to compete with the giant companies that are trying to carve out private areas of the Internet, as Twitter is. "></outline>
					<outline created="Wed, 05 Sep 2012 21:23:22 GMT" pgfnum="12419" text="Working together is how new markets are always created. There's lots of new stuff in the pipe, much reason for optimism and excitement. :-)"></outline>
					</outline>
				<outline created="Wed, 05 Sep 2012 14:23:20 GMT" name="scriptingcomInTransition" pgfnum="12396" text="scripting.com in transition" type="thread">
					<outline created="Wed, 05 Sep 2012 14:23:25 GMT" pgfnum="12397" text="I'm doing more of my blogging over here on the threads site. "></outline>
					<outline created="Wed, 05 Sep 2012 14:23:34 GMT" pgfnum="12398" text="This was always the plan. When people say that I turned off comments, that wasn't exactly true. I wanted to start a transition from a site where discourse was more controlled, and set off from the main blog content."></outline>
					<outline created="Wed, 05 Sep 2012 14:24:10 GMT" pgfnum="12399" text="There is more transition coming, some things I hope that many people will find exciting. "></outline>
					<outline created="Wed, 05 Sep 2012 14:24:31 GMT" pgfnum="12400" text="I think there's a new kind of writing for the web coming. I want to be a major proponent of it, and participant, as I was in the early days of blogging and podcasting."></outline>
					<outline created="Wed, 05 Sep 2012 14:24:59 GMT" pgfnum="12401" text="Feel free to post a comment below (but keep it nice). :-)"></outline>
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				<outline created="Wed, 05 Sep 2012 12:09:06 GMT" name="whyASecondTermForObama" pgfnum="12377" text="Why a second term for Obama?" type="thread">
					<outline created="Wed, 05 Sep 2012 12:13:15 GMT" pgfnum="12381" text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.economist.com/node/21561890&quot;&gt;Economist&lt;/a&gt;: &quot;A president who has had a patchy first term now needs to make a convincing case for a second one.&quot;"></outline>
					<outline created="Wed, 05 Sep 2012 12:09:18 GMT" pgfnum="12378" text="Pretty simple. Romney repeats a promise that he'll &quot;repeal ObamaCare.&quot;"></outline>
					<outline created="Wed, 05 Sep 2012 12:09:35 GMT" pgfnum="12379" text="Obama will implement it. By the time his second term is over it will be a done deal."></outline>
					<outline created="Wed, 05 Sep 2012 12:10:21 GMT" pgfnum="12380" text="Even if Obama did nothing else, it would be worth it to re-elect him just for this."></outline>
					<outline created="Wed, 05 Sep 2012 14:18:45 GMT" pgfnum="12388" text="&lt;b&gt;A little background&lt;/b&gt; "></outline>
					<outline created="Wed, 05 Sep 2012 14:26:04 GMT" pgfnum="12402" text="Ten years ago I had life-saving surgery. It cost over $400K. And over the years since, my health care has been pretty expensive. I'm well-off. I can afford my health insurance. And I've had continuous coverage since I was in my 20s. So the insurance companies have to cover me."></outline>
					<outline created="Wed, 05 Sep 2012 14:19:44 GMT" pgfnum="12389" text="But I understand what it would mean to not have the money and not be insured. I would have died ten years ago. So this means something to me personally. "></outline>
					<outline created="Wed, 05 Sep 2012 14:20:09 GMT" pgfnum="12390" text="I also have friends whose life requires maintenence from the health care industry to hold death at bay. If you look around you, and ask -- you'll find that there are many people who are in a similar circumstance. Not everyone likes to talk about it, but it's happening anyway. "></outline>
					<outline created="Wed, 05 Sep 2012 14:28:02 GMT" pgfnum="12403" text="People who don't understand are imho:"></outline>
					<outline created="Wed, 05 Sep 2012 14:21:03 GMT" pgfnum="12391" text="1. Young."></outline>
					<outline created="Wed, 05 Sep 2012 14:21:05 GMT" pgfnum="12392" text="2. Have never experienced the death or serious illness of someone they loved and/or depended on."></outline>
					<outline created="Wed, 05 Sep 2012 14:21:26 GMT" pgfnum="12393" text="3. Are not paying attention. Probably an alchoholic or drug abuser, because it's all around you. You have to work at not seeing it. Work hard."></outline>
					<outline created="Wed, 05 Sep 2012 14:22:04 GMT" pgfnum="12394" text="That we would play games with health care for our families is ridiculous. I guess Paul Ryan and Mitt Romney don't have any friends or family who might be at risk. But that can't be true for most Republicans. So I honestly don't understand. But I don't have to understand if we simply re-elect President Obama."></outline>
					<outline created="Wed, 05 Sep 2012 14:23:00 GMT" pgfnum="12395" text="Q.E.D."></outline>
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				<outline name="annRichards1988DncKeynote" text="Ann Richards 1988 keynote" type="thread">
					<outline created="Wed, 05 Sep 2012 00:20:07 GMT" pgfnum="12379" text="&lt;iframe width=&quot;480&quot; height=&quot;360&quot; src=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/embed/wtIFhiqS_TY&quot; frameborder=&quot;0&quot; allowfullscreen&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;"></outline>
					<outline created="Wed, 05 Sep 2012 00:19:55 GMT" pgfnum="12378" text="One of the best speeches ever."></outline>
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				<outline created="Tue, 04 Sep 2012 21:15:44 GMT" name="repubsLieAndObstructButObamaDoesNotLead" pgfnum="12356" text="Repubs lie and obstruct, but Obama does not lead" type="thread">
					<outline created="Tue, 04 Sep 2012 21:15:56 GMT" pgfnum="12357" text="The Repubs tell the truth about one thing, and it's the one thing that damns the president. He hasn't been leading. Campaigning for re-election is not leading. "></outline>
					<outline created="Tue, 04 Sep 2012 21:16:19 GMT" pgfnum="12358" text="I'm going to vote for Obama no matter what. Not voting is not an option, and voting for Romney is &lt;i&gt;most definitely&lt;/i&gt; not an option. If the Repubs were to control both the executive and legislative branches we're in for a whole other level of catastrophe. Last time they ran the country we almost lost everything, economically, militarily as well as our freedom. The whole thing. "></outline>
					<outline created="Tue, 04 Sep 2012 21:17:40 GMT" pgfnum="12359" text="What has to happen is the Repubs have to be reined in. And the President has to lead us to that future. He can't just get re-elected. It has to be more than that. "></outline>
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				<outline created="Tue, 04 Sep 2012 02:22:29 GMT" name="theRealLiarsAreThePress" pgfnum="12285" text="The real liars are the press" type="thread">
					<outline created="Tue, 04 Sep 2012 02:22:35 GMT" pgfnum="12286" text="Who can really blame the Repubs for lying if the reporters let them get away with it."></outline>
					<outline created="Tue, 04 Sep 2012 02:22:50 GMT" pgfnum="12287" text="I read a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012/sep/02/us-media-neutrality-presidential-elections-lies&quot;&gt;piece&lt;/a&gt; by Emily Bell about how media neutrality is fueling lies. It's pretty radical considering  she teaches jouralism at Columbia."></outline>
					<outline created="Tue, 04 Sep 2012 02:35:45 GMT" pgfnum="12298" text="But the truth is much more radical. The Republicans are finally taking down the press. What will be left of journalism after this election will not resemble in any way what it was before. This is a moment of breaking with the past, a discontinuity, reformation. "></outline>
					<outline created="Tue, 04 Sep 2012 02:23:39 GMT" pgfnum="12288" text="Finally it's obvious to everyone that the news is not being reported accurately. What we see and hear in the speeches in the cable news broadcasts is different from what they report. Could not be clearer. We see A, they report B. "></outline>
					<outline created="Tue, 04 Sep 2012 02:37:21 GMT" pgfnum="12299" text="If the headline is wrong, then now is the time for the press to stop lying. I would love for that headline to be wrong, but right now, it's correct."></outline>
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				<outline created="Tue, 04 Sep 2012 02:08:46 GMT" name="registerToVote" pgfnum="12281" text="Embedded registration form" type="thread">
					<outline created="Tue, 04 Sep 2012 02:08:51 GMT" pgfnum="12282" text="&lt;iframe id=&quot;gottaregister&quot; name=&quot;1_1&quot; src=&quot;https://gottaregister.com/?brand=embed&amp;source=http%3A%2F%2Fthreads2.scripting.com%2F&quot; width=&quot;450&quot; frameborder=&quot;&quot; height=&quot;380&quot; style=&quot;display: block; overflow: hidden; margin: auto; background-color: whitesmoke; padding: 20px; border:#c2dbe8 1px solid; moz-border-radius: 0; webkit-border-radius: 0; border-radius: 0; &quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;"></outline>
					<outline created="Tue, 04 Sep 2012 02:11:56 GMT" pgfnum="12283" text="Note: I used the Obama campaign's &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.barackobama.com/registration-embed&quot;&gt;embeddable form&lt;/a&gt;. You can too. It's easy."></outline>
					</outline>
				<outline created="Sun, 02 Sep 2012 16:22:33 GMT" name="oddPicOfTwoPresidents" pgfnum="12243" text="Odd pic of two Presidents" type="redirect" url="http://threads.scripting.com/9212ByDw/aWeirdPictureOfPresidentsObamaAndClinton"></outline>
				<outline created="Sat, 01 Sep 2012 14:37:22 GMT" name="obamaGets12OfIt" pgfnum="12189" text="Obama gets 1/2 of it" type="redirect" url="http://threads.scripting.com/9112ByDw/obamaGets12OfIt"></outline>
				</outline>
			<outline text="August">
				<outline created="Sat, 01 Sep 2012 01:07:45 GMT" pgfnum="12183" text="We *Really* Built It" type="redirect" url="http://threads.scripting.com/83112ByDw/weBuiltIt"></outline>
				<outline created="Thu, 30 Aug 2012 13:26:43 GMT" pgfnum="12175" text="International news feeds" type="redirect" url="http://threads.scripting.com/83012ByDw/internationalNewsFeeds"></outline>
				<outline created="Thu, 30 Aug 2012 01:20:27 GMT" pgfnum="12170" text="Write a blog post" type="redirect" url="http://threads.scripting.com/82912ByDw/strangeIdea"></outline>
				<outline created="Sun, 26 Aug 2012 21:41:31 GMT" pgfnum="11948" text="Levity in Republican politics" type="redirect" url="http://threads.scripting.com/82612ByDw/levityInPolitics"></outline>
				<outline created="Sat, 25 Aug 2012 21:29:41 GMT" pgfnum="11929" text="Remember where you were when...?" type="redirect" url="http://threads.scripting.com/82512ByDw/doYouRememberWhereYouWereWhen"></outline>
				<outline created="Thu, 23 Aug 2012 01:40:48 GMT" pgfnum="126" text="Thurs on the patio by the lake" type="redirect" url="http://threads.scripting.com/82212ByDw/thursdayOnThePatioByTheLake"></outline>
				<outline created="Thu, 23 Aug 2012 02:10:26 GMT" name="protocolsDontMeanMuch" pgfnum="128" text="Protocols don't mean much" type="redirect" url="http://threads.scripting.com/82212ByDw/protocolsDontMeanMuch"></outline>
				<outline created="Wed, 22 Aug 2012 01:17:26 GMT" pgfnum="117" text="Chrome RSS breakage, part II" type="redirect" url="http://threads.scripting.com/82112ByDw/workingAroundChromeRssBreakage"></outline>
				<outline created="Mon, 20 Aug 2012 14:47:11 GMT" pgfnum="98" text="User-editable structure" type="redirect" url="http://threads.scripting.com/82012ByDw/whatsMissingInContentManagement"></outline>
				<outline created="Thu, 16 Aug 2012 11:10:00 GMT" pgfnum="11848" text="NYT joins Tabbed River 2.0" type="redirect" url="http://threads.scripting.com/81612ByDw/tabbedRivers21"></outline>
				<outline created="Fri, 17 Aug 2012 02:36:35 GMT" pgfnum="11879" text="What's in a tabbed river?" type="redirect" url="http://threads.scripting.com/81612ByDw/amaAboutTabbedRivers"></outline>
				<outline created="Wed, 15 Aug 2012 19:27:22 GMT" pgfnum="11815" text="How much does a digital subscription to the NYT cost per year?" type="redirect" url="http://threads.scripting.com/81512ByDw/howMuchDoesADigitalSubscriptionToTheNytCostPerYear"></outline>
				<outline created="Tue, 14 Aug 2012 23:23:53 GMT" pgfnum="11799" text="Trying out Medium" type="redirect" url="http://threads.scripting.com/81412ByDw/tryingOutMedium"></outline>
				<outline created="Mon, 13 Aug 2012 22:22:48 GMT" pgfnum="11790" text="An open Twitter-like ecoystem" type="redirect" url="http://threads.scripting.com/81312ByDw/openarchitectureTwitterlikeEcoystem"></outline>
				<outline created="Sun, 12 Aug 2012 15:10:02 GMT" pgfnum="11706" text="When I see Russell Westbrook" type="redirect" url="http://threads.scripting.com/81212ByDw/russellWestbrookAndBodieFromTheWire"></outline>
				<outline created="Sun, 12 Aug 2012 18:59:07 GMT" pgfnum="11739" text="German in World Outlines" type="redirect" url="http://threads.scripting.com/81212ByDw/germanInWorldOutlines"></outline>
				<outline created="Sun, 12 Aug 2012 21:37:20 GMT" pgfnum="11742" text="Convert UTF-8 to HTML entities?" type="redirect" url="http://threads.scripting.com/81212ByDw/cCodeToConvertUtf8ToHtmlEntities"></outline>
				<outline created="Sat, 11 Aug 2012 18:12:59 GMT" pgfnum="11705" text="Madison 8/21 through 8/23" type="redirect" url="http://threads.scripting.com/81112ByDw/madison821Through823"></outline>
				<outline created="Fri, 10 Aug 2012 14:26:41 GMT" pgfnum="11671" text="Feeds for my Apple river?" type="redirect" url="http://threads.scripting.com/81012ByDw/feedsForMyAppleRiver"></outline>
				<outline created="Fri, 10 Aug 2012 13:38:42 GMT" pgfnum="11663" text="Arrgh Chrome broke RSS again" type="redirect" url="http://threads.scripting.com/81012ByDw/arrghChromeBrokeRssAgain"></outline>
				<outline created="Thu, 09 Aug 2012 22:25:19 GMT" pgfnum="11648" text="Is the Twitter API an open standard?" type="redirect" url="http://threads.scripting.com/8912ByDw/isTheTwitterApiAnOpenStandard"></outline>
				<outline created="Sun, 05 Aug 2012 16:56:50 GMT" pgfnum="11567" text="Preview: Tabbed river" type="redirect" url="http://threads.scripting.com/8512ByDw/previewTabbedRiver"></outline>
				<outline created="Sat, 04 Aug 2012 08:59:30 GMT" name="tryingWorkflowy" pgfnum="11473" text="Trying Workflowy" type="redirect" url="http://threads.scripting.com/8412ByDw/tryingWorkflowy"></outline>
				<outline created="Sat, 04 Aug 2012 19:08:38 GMT" pgfnum="11512" text="Tabbed rivers question" type="redirect" url="http://threads.scripting.com/8412ByDw/javascriptQuestion"></outline>
				<outline created="Fri, 03 Aug 2012 13:18:01 GMT" pgfnum="11387" text="What if Feedburner closes?" type="redirect" url="http://threads.scripting.com/8312ByDw/theFutureOfFeedburner"></outline>
				<outline created="Thu, 02 Aug 2012 15:41:03 GMT" pgfnum="11401" text="Digg archive gone?" type="redirect" url="http://threads.scripting.com/8212ByDw/diggArchiveGone"></outline>
				<outline created="Wed, 01 Aug 2012 13:20:32 GMT" pgfnum="11397" text="Quick review of the new Digg" type="redirect" url="http://threads.scripting.com/8112ByDw/whatDoYouThinkOfTheNewDigg"></outline>
				<outline created="Wed, 01 Aug 2012 14:20:14 GMT" pgfnum="11404" text="In Madison, August 22 and 23" type="redirect" url="http://threads.scripting.com/8112ByDw/inMadisonAugust22And23"></outline>
				</outline>
			<outline text="July">
				<outline created="Wed, 01 Aug 2012 00:13:19 GMT" pgfnum="11387" text="Hello r2.ly, our new URL shortener" type="redirect" url="http://threads.scripting.com/73112ByDw/newUrlShortener"></outline>
				<outline created="Mon, 30 Jul 2012 14:42:53 GMT" pgfnum="11354" text="Apple OS updates scare me" type="redirect" url="http://threads.scripting.com/73012ByDw/appleOsUpdatesScareMe"></outline>
				<outline created="Fri, 27 Jul 2012 13:57:29 GMT" pgfnum="11218" text="Olympics on tape-delay? No please!" type="redirect" url="http://threads.scripting.com/72712ByDw/olympicsInRealtime"></outline>
				<outline created="Thu, 26 Jul 2012 21:06:18 GMT" pgfnum="11212" text="Non-standard body formats" type="redirect" url="http://threads.scripting.com/72612ByDw/formats"></outline>
				<outline created="Wed, 25 Jul 2012 14:16:06 GMT" pgfnum="11177" text="Dear Fred: A more concise question" type="redirect" url="http://threads.scripting.com/72512ByDw/dearFredSecondAttempt"></outline>
				<outline created="Tue, 24 Jul 2012 01:48:15 GMT" pgfnum="11171" text="Rich people need to pay more taxes" type="redirect" url="http://threads.scripting.com/72312ByDw/richPeopleNeedToPayMoreTaxes"></outline>
				<outline created="Mon, 23 Jul 2012 13:58:57 GMT" pgfnum="11139" text="Dear Fred: Re your users' content" type="redirect" url="http://threads.scripting.com/72312ByDw/fredWilsonAboutYourUsersContent"></outline>
				<outline created="Mon, 23 Jul 2012 18:33:05 GMT" pgfnum="11152" text="Beauty of the web?" type="redirect" url="http://threads.scripting.com/72312ByDw/beautyOnTheWeb"></outline>
				<outline created="Mon, 23 Jul 2012 13:20:08 GMT" pgfnum="11136" text="Are you busy?" type="redirect" url="http://threads.scripting.com/72312ByDw/areYouBusy"></outline>
				<outline created="Wed, 18 Jul 2012 11:24:59 GMT" pgfnum="11057" text="Olympics blogs or feeds?" type="redirect" url="http://threads.scripting.com/71812ByDw/olympicsBlogsOrFeeds"></outline>
				<outline created="Wed, 18 Jul 2012 02:28:24 GMT" pgfnum="11057" text="Why The Newsroom works where The Social Network didn't" type="redirect" url="http://threads.scripting.com/71712ByDw/newsroomWorksWhereTheSocialNetworkDidnt"></outline>
				<outline created="Mon, 16 Jul 2012 21:42:29 GMT" pgfnum="11038" text="I'm rooting for Yahoo" type="redirect" url="http://threads.scripting.com/71612ByDw/areYouRootingForYahoo"></outline>
				<outline created="Tue, 10 Jul 2012 12:32:07 GMT" pgfnum="10913" text="How do adults learn computers?" type="redirect" url="http://threads.scripting.com/71012ByDw/howAreAdultsSupposedToLearnAboutComputers"></outline>
				<outline created="Tue, 10 Jul 2012 22:06:00 GMT" pgfnum="10946" text="Berkman river?" type="redirect" url="http://threads.scripting.com/71012ByDw/berkmanReadingList"></outline>
				<outline created="Mon, 09 Jul 2012 05:28:48 GMT" pgfnum="10907" text="Nexus/S update woes" type="redirect" url="http://threads.scripting.com/7912ByDw/nexussUpdateWoes"></outline>
				<outline created="Mon, 09 Jul 2012 05:49:45 GMT" pgfnum="10909" text="Macbook Air/Lion won't wake up" type="redirect" url="http://threads.scripting.com/7912ByDw/macbookAirlionWontWakeUp"></outline>
				<outline created="Mon, 09 Jul 2012 16:57:06 GMT" pgfnum="10911" text="Is Obama the first black president?" type="redirect" url="http://threads.scripting.com/7912ByDw/isObamaTheFirstBlackPresident"></outline>
				</outline>
			<outline text="June">
				<outline created="Fri, 29 Jun 2012 15:18:36 GMT" pgfnum="10901" text="Questions re podcast suggestions" type="redirect" url="http://threads.scripting.com/62912ByDw/questionsAboutPodcastSuggestions"></outline>
				<outline created="Fri, 29 Jun 2012 15:51:24 GMT" pgfnum="10901" text="Our Supreme Court" type="redirect" url="http://threads.scripting.com/62912ByDw/ourSupremeCourt"></outline>
				<outline created="Thu, 28 Jun 2012 14:00:14 GMT" pgfnum="10901" text="NPR and Twitter" type="redirect" url="http://threads.scripting.com/62812ByDw/howImFollowingTheScotusDecision"></outline>
				<outline created="Fri, 29 Jun 2012 00:26:29 GMT" pgfnum="10904" text="Quick review: Chrome on iPad" type="redirect" url="http://threads.scripting.com/62812ByDw/chromeOnIpad"></outline>
				<outline created="Fri, 29 Jun 2012 02:14:59 GMT" pgfnum="10910" text="Bi-partisan" type="redirect" url="http://threads.scripting.com/62812ByDw/bipartisan"></outline>
				<outline created="Tue, 26 Jun 2012 23:27:58 GMT" pgfnum="10882" text="Time to reboot podcasting?" type="redirect" url="http://threads.scripting.com/62612ByDw/timeToRebootPodcasting"></outline>
				<outline created="Tue, 26 Jun 2012 17:31:45 GMT" pgfnum="10859" text="Should Twitter have a Hate option?" type="redirect" url="http://threads.scripting.com/62612ByDw/shouldTwitterHaveAHateLink"></outline>
				<outline created="Mon, 25 Jun 2012 04:33:22 GMT" pgfnum="10865" text="The story the tech press missed" type="redirect" url="http://threads.scripting.com/62512ByDw/theStoryTheTechPressMissed"></outline>
				<outline created="Mon, 25 Jun 2012 04:27:59 GMT" pgfnum="10864" text="Quick review of The Newsroom" type="redirect" url="http://threads.scripting.com/62512ByDw/quickReviewOfTheNewsroom"></outline>
				<outline created="Sat, 23 Jun 2012 15:43:00 GMT" pgfnum="10840" text="What does ICANN do?" type="redirect" url="http://threads.scripting.com/62312ByDw/whatDoesIcannDo"></outline>
				<outline created="Tue, 19 Jun 2012 14:57:14 GMT" pgfnum="10665" text="New Orleans river update" type="redirect" url="http://threads.scripting.com/61912ByDw/newOrleansRiverUpdate"></outline>
				<outline created="Mon, 18 Jun 2012 13:15:21 GMT" pgfnum="10640" text="The choir in Angry Birds Piglantis?" type="redirect" url="http://threads.scripting.com/61812ByDw/whatAboutTheChoirInAngryBirdsPiglantis"></outline>
				<outline created="Sun, 17 Jun 2012 19:13:16 GMT" pgfnum="10590" text="New Orleans blogs?" type="redirect" url="http://threads.scripting.com/61712ByDw/newOrleansBlogs"></outline>
				<outline created="Sat, 16 Jun 2012 14:11:45 GMT" pgfnum="10584" text="Wallenda safety feature?" type="redirect" url="http://threads.scripting.com/61612ByDw/wallendaSafetyFeature"></outline>
				<outline created="Fri, 15 Jun 2012 12:22:21 GMT" pgfnum="10566" text="Why did Dropbox kill the Public folder?" type="redirect" url="http://threads.scripting.com/61512ByDw/whyDidDropboxKillThePublicFolder"></outline>
				<outline created="Sat, 16 Jun 2012 01:42:58 GMT" pgfnum="10584" text="Netflix hamster commercial (2011)" type="redirect" url="http://threads.scripting.com/61512ByDw/netflixHamsterCommercial"></outline>
				<outline created="Wed, 13 Jun 2012 12:44:21 GMT" pgfnum="10488" text="New TLD apps" type="redirect" url="http://threads.scripting.com/61312ByDw/newTldApps"></outline>
				<outline created="Wed, 13 Jun 2012 13:06:45 GMT" pgfnum="10490" text="Is Twitter using Open Graph tags?" type="redirect" url="http://threads.scripting.com/61312ByDw/isTwitterUsingOpenGraphTags"></outline>
				<outline created="Wed, 13 Jun 2012 19:30:33 GMT" pgfnum="10505" text="Getting started with Radio2" type="redirect" url="http://threads.scripting.com/61312ByDw/gettingStartedWithRadio2"></outline>
				<outline created="Tue, 12 Jun 2012 14:58:00 GMT" pgfnum="10483" text="Dave's NYC cycling meditation" type="redirect" url="http://threads.scripting.com/61212ByDw/davesNycCyclingMantra"></outline>
				<outline created="Sat, 09 Jun 2012 18:27:48 GMT" pgfnum="10399" text="Chrome and DDE" type="redirect" url="http://threads.scripting.com/6912ByDw/chromeAndDde"></outline>
				<outline created="Sat, 09 Jun 2012 17:08:38 GMT" pgfnum="10378" text="Central Park cyclists" type="redirect" url="http://threads.scripting.com/6912ByDw/centralParkCyclists"></outline>
				<outline created="Fri, 08 Jun 2012 21:04:13 GMT" pgfnum="10374" text="The Unthinkable" type="redirect" url="http://threads.scripting.com/6812ByDw/theUnthinkable"></outline>
				<outline created="Wed, 06 Jun 2012 20:18:01 GMT" pgfnum="10289" text="What do you think of Twitter's new Display Guidelines?" type="redirect" url="http://threads.scripting.com/6612ByDw/whatDoYouThinkOfTwittersNewDisplayGuidelines"></outline>
				<outline created="Tue, 05 Jun 2012 12:39:26 GMT" pgfnum="10217" text="Problems with Disqus/Ajax" type="redirect" url="http://threads.scripting.com/6512ByDw/problemsWithDisqusajax"></outline>
				<outline created="Mon, 04 Jun 2012 20:57:20 GMT" pgfnum="10195" text="Outliner screencast #2" type="redirect" url="http://threads.scripting.com/6412ByDw/newScreencast"></outline>
				<outline created="Fri, 01 Jun 2012 18:22:24 GMT" pgfnum="10102" text="How big is a tweet?" type="redirect" url="http://threads.scripting.com/6112ByDw/whatComesAfterATweet"></outline>
				</outline>
			<outline text="May">
				<outline created="Tue, 29 May 2012 14:30:39 GMT" pgfnum="10035" text="My First Screencast" type="redirect" url="http://threads.scripting.com/52912ByDw/myFirstScreencast"></outline>
				<outline created="Tue, 29 May 2012 19:02:30 GMT" pgfnum="10041" text="Bitly's &quot;bitmarks&quot;" type="redirect" url="http://threads.scripting.com/52912ByDw/bitlysBitmarks"></outline>
				<outline created="Sun, 27 May 2012 14:41:54 GMT" pgfnum="9989" text="Zipper merge" type="redirect" url="http://threads.scripting.com/52712ByDw/zipperMerge"></outline>
				<outline created="Mon, 28 May 2012 00:09:25 GMT" pgfnum="10024" text="Should Google have posting API?" type="redirect" url="http://threads.scripting.com/52712ByDw/shouldGoogleHaveAPostingApi"></outline>
				<outline created="Sat, 26 May 2012 23:51:39 GMT" pgfnum="9986" text="Will Twitter ever have competition?" type="redirect" url="http://threads.scripting.com/52612ByDw/willTwitterEverHaveCompetition"></outline>
				<outline created="Sat, 26 May 2012 01:24:59 GMT" pgfnum="9970" text="$50 for a year of the NYT?" type="redirect" url="http://threads.scripting.com/52512ByDw/50ForAYearOfTheNyt"></outline>
				<outline created="Wed, 23 May 2012 18:51:05 GMT" pgfnum="25" text="Dead is dead." type="redirect" url="http://threads.scripting.com/52312ByDw/deadIsDead"></outline>
				<outline created="Tue, 22 May 2012 13:04:08 GMT" pgfnum="9965" text="What we're missing in search" type="redirect" url="http://threads.scripting.com/52212ByDw/whatWereMissingInSearch"></outline>
				<outline created="Tue, 22 May 2012 13:10:49 GMT" pgfnum="9967" text="If I were Google" type="redirect" url="http://threads.scripting.com/52212ByDw/ifIWereGoogle"></outline>
				<outline created="Thu, 17 May 2012 14:16:38 GMT" pgfnum="9784" text="Why amateur reviewers are better" type="redirect" url="http://threads.scripting.com/51712ByDw/whyAmateurReviewersAreBetter"></outline>
				<outline created="Thu, 17 May 2012 13:18:19 GMT" pgfnum="9777" text="Tech design can't move that fast" type="redirect" url="http://threads.scripting.com/51712ByDw/techDesignCantMoveThatFast"></outline>
				<outline created="Wed, 16 May 2012 16:38:58 GMT" pgfnum="9753" text="What are threads for?" type="redirect" url="http://threads.scripting.com/51612ByDw/whatAreThreadsFor"></outline>
				<outline created="Tue, 15 May 2012 15:29:06 GMT" pgfnum="9732" text="Chrome is better" type="redirect" url="http://threads.scripting.com/51512ByDw/chromeIsBetter"></outline>
				<outline created="Sun, 13 May 2012 18:07:11 GMT" pgfnum="9612" text="JPM's $2 billion loss? I don't get it" type="redirect" url="http://threads.scripting.com/51312ByDw/jpms2BillionLossIDontGetIt"></outline>
				<outline created="Sat, 12 May 2012 19:45:58 GMT" pgfnum="9599" text="Interesting at Livefyre" type="redirect" url="http://threads.scripting.com/51212ByDw/interestingAtLivefyre"></outline>
				<outline created="Wed, 09 May 2012 20:02:02 GMT" pgfnum="9498" text="Question for HTML gurus" type="redirect" url="http://threads.scripting.com/5912ByDw/questionForHtmlGurus"></outline>
				<outline created="Wed, 09 May 2012 12:56:16 GMT" pgfnum="9472" text="Is computer science relevant?" type="redirect" url="http://threads.scripting.com/5912ByDw/isComputerScienceRelevant"></outline>
				<outline created="Tue, 08 May 2012 21:32:26 GMT" pgfnum="9460" text="Using Disqus 2012" type="redirect" url="http://threads.scripting.com/5812ByDw/usingDisqus2012"></outline>
				<outline created="Tue, 08 May 2012 02:10:48 GMT" pgfnum="9406" text="I relive my life through Mad Men" type="redirect" url="http://threads.scripting.com/5712ByDw/iReliveMyLifeThroughMadMen"></outline>
				<outline created="Fri, 04 May 2012 21:52:39 GMT" pgfnum="9233" text="Examples of great blog design?" type="redirect" url="http://threads.scripting.com/5412ByDw/examplesOfGreatBlogDesign"></outline>
				<outline created="Wed, 02 May 2012 19:44:34 GMT" pgfnum="9174" text="Missing Boostrap icons" type="redirect" url="http://threads.scripting.com/5212ByDw/missingBoostrapIcons"></outline>
				<outline created="Wed, 02 May 2012 21:24:40 GMT" pgfnum="9182" text="Canon 320 Wifi setup" type="redirect" url="http://threads.scripting.com/5212ByDw/canon320WifiSetup"></outline>
				<outline created="Tue, 01 May 2012 14:30:51 GMT" pgfnum="9060" text="Organ donor podcast" type="redirect" url="http://threads.scripting.com/5112ByDw/organDonorPodcast"></outline>
				<outline created="Tue, 01 May 2012 18:20:49 GMT" pgfnum="9120" text="I can see Clyde shaking his head" type="redirect" url="http://threads.scripting.com/5112ByDw/iCanSeeClydeShakingHisHead"></outline>
				<outline created="Tue, 01 May 2012 17:45:26 GMT" pgfnum="9097" text="Having fun with Bootstrap" type="redirect" url="http://threads.scripting.com/5112ByDw/havingFunWithBootstrap"></outline>
				</outline>
			<outline text="April">
				<outline created="Sun, 29 Apr 2012 14:08:15 GMT" pgfnum="9004" text="What's the dispute between Sun and Google?" type="redirect" url="http://threads.scripting.com/42912ByDw/whatsTheDisputeBetweenSunAndGoogle"></outline>
				<outline created="Mon, 30 Apr 2012 00:20:32 GMT" pgfnum="9043" text="Great NBA Playoffs RSS feed?" type="redirect" url="http://threads.scripting.com/42912ByDw/greatNbaPlayoffsRssFeed"></outline>
				<outline created="Tue, 24 Apr 2012 22:07:24 GMT" pgfnum="8779" text="Trying out Google Drive" type="redirect" url="http://threads.scripting.com/42412ByDw/tryingOutGoogleDrive"></outline>
				<outline created="Sat, 21 Apr 2012 17:45:05 GMT" pgfnum="8629" text="Free rent?" type="redirect" url="http://threads.scripting.com/42112ByDw/freeRent"></outline>
				<outline created="Fri, 20 Apr 2012 12:27:51 GMT" pgfnum="8502" text="New EC2 for Poets" type="redirect" url="http://threads.scripting.com/42012ByDw/newEc2ForPoets"></outline>
				<outline created="Thu, 19 Apr 2012 12:13:06 GMT" pgfnum="8444" text="Question about URLs" type="redirect" url="http://threads.scripting.com/41912ByDw/questionAboutUrls"></outline>
				<outline created="Sat, 07 Apr 2012 23:10:33 GMT" pgfnum="7359" text="Casual Games for XBOX?" type="redirect" url="http://threads.scripting.com/4712ByDw/casualGamesForXbox"></outline>
				<outline created="Mon, 02 Apr 2012 16:47:49 GMT" pgfnum="7056" text="Readability vs Instapaper" type="redirect" url="http://threads.scripting.com/4212ByDw/readabilityVsInstapaper"></outline>
				<outline created="Mon, 02 Apr 2012 16:26:44 GMT" pgfnum="7045" text="Instability vs Readapaper" type="redirect" url="http://threads.scripting.com/4212ByDw/instabilityVsReadapaper"></outline>
				</outline>
			<outline text="March">
				<outline created="Wed, 14 Mar 2012 13:04:47 GMT" pgfnum="6375" text="A rule for reporters" type="redirect" url="http://threads.scripting.com/31412ByDw/aRuleForReporters"></outline>
				<outline created="Mon, 12 Mar 2012 17:39:59 GMT" pgfnum="6328" text="It's amazing anyone uses Google+" type="redirect" url="http://threads.scripting.com/31212ByDw/itsAmazingAnyoneUsesGoogle"></outline>
				<outline created="Sun, 11 Mar 2012 20:29:16 GMT" pgfnum="6274" text="Which Facebook billionaire will buy NYT?" type="redirect" url="http://threads.scripting.com/31112ByDw/whichFacebookBillionaireWillBuyNyt"></outline>
				<outline created="Sun, 11 Mar 2012 14:51:03 GMT" pgfnum="6257" text="Should journalists play roles in movies?" type="redirect" url="http://threads.scripting.com/31112ByDw/shouldJournalistsPlayRolesInMovies"></outline>
				</outline>
			</outline>
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